Trample the weak. Hurdle the dead.
— Attila the Hun
Instructive Funny Team quotations
You can change your wife, your politics, your religion, but never, never can you change your favourite football team.
I often warn people: "Somewhere along the way, someone is going to tell you, 'There is no "I" in team.' What you should tell them is, 'Maybe not. But there is an "I" in independence, individuality and integrity.
In my time at Anfield we always said we had the best two teams on Merseyside - Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.
Yes, I thought I was joining Manchester United, I was misled by all involved.
I wasnt aware of another Manchester team
Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.
High sticking, tripping, slashing, spearing, charging, hooking, fighting, unsportsmanlike conduct, interference, roughing......everything else is just figure skating.
A single leaf working alone provides no shade.
Being an England supporter is like being the over-optimistic parents of the fat kid on sports day.
They're the second best team in the world, and there's no higher praise than that.
Bob Gibson is the luckiest pitcher I ever saw.
He always pitches when the other team doesn't score any runs.
We get nose jobs all the time in the NHL, and we don't even have to go to the hospital.
If you're mad at your kid, you can either raise him to be a nose tackle or send him out to play on the freeway. It's about the same.
Half the game is mental, the other half is being mental.
Hockey players wear numbers because you can't always identify the body with dental records.
American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party.
Fans never fall asleep at our games, because they're afraid they might get hit by a pass.
A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.
Most football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental.
Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.
Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.
I never thought I'd lead the NBA in rebounding, but I got a lot of help from my team-mates - they did a lot of missing.
Cricket is a most precarious profession;
it is called a team game but, in fact, no one is so lonely as a batsman facing a bowler supported by ten fieldsmen and observed by two umpires to ensure that his error does not go unpunished.
You can run a lot of plays when your X is twice as big as the other guys' O.
It makes your X's and O's pretty good.
I was the captain of the latent paranoid softball team.
We used to play all the neurotics on sunday morning. Nailbiters against the bedwetters, and if you've never seen neurotics play softball, it's really funny. I used to steal second base, and feel guilty and go back.
Yeah, I had it all mapped out actually.
Seriously. I wrote it down. I said, 'When I'm the head coach of the Eagles, I'm going to make sure I get that guy on my team.' And then guy next to me was like, 'You're only the offensive coordinator at New Hampshire.' I said, 'Don't worry about it. Minor details. But it's going to work.'
There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. - Mark Twain, author Making the team is one thing, becoming a team is another.
I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons.
It's funny, but when there are dominant teams, there are a number of people who rail about the fact that they're always seeing the Dallas Cowboys or the San Francisco 49ers or the Green Bay either in the playoffs or in the Super Bowl.
Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
Hockey is a fast, body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet.
I was watching the Superbowl with my 92 year old grandfather.
The team scored a touchdown. They showed the instant replay. He thought they scored another one. I was gonna tell him, but I figured the game HE was watching was better.
Cross Country: No half times, no time outs, no substitutions. It must be the only true sport.
It's one-on-one out there, man. There ain't no hiding. I can't pass the ball.
In order for this team to win the game, the quarterback has to throw the ball.