Team Award Quotes

The team behind 'The Lego Movie' approached me. They wanted to do something extra special for the Academy Award performance of best song nominee 'Everything is Awesome.' They had seen my earlier version of a Lego Oscar statue, and I was happy to take on the challenge. ~ Nathan Sawaya

$20M in sales, our leadership team was dysfunctional and divided. Prior to this, our culture had earned several "Best Places to Work" accolades, and our performance was repeatedly acknowledged by Inc. Magazine's, Inc. 5000 award, and Ernst & Young honored our success as a finalist for their Entrepreneur of the year award. ~ Werner Berger

For me, honestly, it's not about individual accomplishments, individual award. It's about what I've got to do and how I can contribute to the team. ~ Sheryl Swoopes

I am honored to receive the James Beard award and so incredibly proud of my entire team at Eleven Madison Park. ~ Daniel Humm

My opinion is there should NOT be an MVP award [in hockey]. The Olympic teams sports shouldn't acknowledge individuality. And if there is going to be such an award a player on the losing team who lets in the losing goal shouldn't get it. ~ Michael Wilbon

On behalf of the entire Lionsgate team, it is a tremendous honor and deeply humbling to join the elite group of recipients previously honored with the Milestone Award. ~ Jon Feltheimer

I didn't expect this award [the 2008 MVP] would come to me. I'm surprised. I've played pretty well in other seasons. Our team hasn't been as good. Things just fell into place. ~ Kobe Bryant

When you get performance slots for award shows - that's a big deal for me. ~ Luke Bryan

I feel like regardless of whether or not I win this award or I win that award or I don't win this award - I'm still Sam at the end of the day. And that's what defines me. ~ Sam Bradford

When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award. ~ Jack Nicholson

Team performance is directly proportional to team stability. Focus on building and maintaining a stable team. Stability reduces friction and increases credibility and confidence. ~ Salil Jha

An award doesn't necessarily make you a better actor. ~ Javier Bardem

When your great players are team players, everybody else follows their lead. The best team doesn't always win - it's usually the team that gets along best. ~ John C. Maxwell

A leader must inspire or his team will expire. ~ Orrin Woodward

You are either supporting the vision or supporting division ~ Saji Ijiyemi

There is no team without the individual members; an individual can never be a team. ~ Michael Joling

A new kind of award has been added
the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the recipient has not acted at all, or was not nominated, or did not win the award the last few times around. It is intended to relieve the guilty conscience of the Academy members and save face in front of the public. The Academy has the horrible taste to have a star, choking with emotion, present this deathbed award so that there can be no doubt in anybody's mind why the award is so hurriedly given. Lucky is the actor who is too sick to watch the proceedings on television. ~ Marlene Dietrich

Find out what the other team wants to do. Then take it away from them. ~ George Halas

You mustn't take any award so seriously. ~ Tony Randall

One asset every leader, shouldn't risk anything to lose at all cost, is team confidence. ~ Unarine Ramaru

Organisations are innovating quicker than ever. Your members need to excel from being a team player to a team builder. ~ Janna Cachola

No man is more important than The Team. No coach is more important than The Team. The Team, The Team, The Team, and if we think that way, all of us, everything that you do, you take into consideration what effect does it have on my Team? ~ Bo Schembechler

I've figured out that life in general is a team effort; it's a team game. ~ Joe Namath

This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid. ~ Alfred Hitchcock

It is true I'd rather get a hole in one than win an Academy Award. ~ Malcolm McDowell

I think anytime you get nominated for an award, it's a very humbling thing. ~ David Nail

WikiLeaks is a service to the population. Assange should get an award for - presidential medal of honor. ~ Noam Chomsky

The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it out. ~ Harold Prince

The IMPAC is a terribly important award. ~ David Bergen

I think that there should be a Gaius Baltar Award for Moral Cowardice given out to people every year. ~ James Callis

Being a team player will help you climb the ladder of success. Furthermore, a successful team player can rise to the level of team leader in the future. ~ Vishwas Chavan

It's better to have a great team than a team of greats. ~ Simon Sinek

I think the Grammy is like the award, you know. ~ Brandy Norwood

I don't know if anybody's ever ready for another award season. It's kind of like Christmas. ~ James McAvoy

Every award for me is important because it means a slap against militarism and fascism in Indonesia. ~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer

The love of these people and of my fans mean more than any award or special accomplishment. ~ Wynonna Judd

You can't earn honour by getting an award from a dishonourable person! You only earn dishonour! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

I don't need an award to inspire me to keep making music. ~ Jake Bugg

The best teams are team in any sport that lose themselves in the team. The individuals lose their identity. And their identities come about as a result of being in the team first. ~ Mike Krzyzewski

I'll be honest with you: I'd rather have BAFTA over an Academy Award any day. Because it's just cool. ~ Rene Russo

You can never be guaranteed good roles because of an award, but I think your profile and net worth as a performer has to do with awards, unfortunately. ~ Minnie Driver

It's really wonderful that it's the whole franchise being recognized and it's a collective award. Each film has anywhere between 2,000 and 6,000 people working on it and so really the award is for each and every one of us. We are like a family. ~ David Heyman

I'm not aiming for an Academy Award. ~ Andie MacDowell

And remember, Liverpool reserves are not just any team. Liverpool reserves are the second-best team in the land, son. The only team better than the Liverpool reserve team is the Liverpool first team. ~ David Peace

Five players on the floor functioning as a single unit: team, team, team-no one more important than the other. ~ Gene Hackman

There is only one thing wrong about the Flo Hyman Award: it came to be named for the Old Lady of Volleyball much too soon. ~ George Vecsey

In the end it's about the work, not an award you get for the work. ~ Linda Fiorentino

When one team member succeeds, the entire team succeeds. ~ Stacy Allison

A team can't work when a guy puts himself in front of a team. I have yet to be on a team like that. ~ LeBron James

I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award. ~ Aaron Neville

An award means a lot to me. It brings happiness along with a kind of fear. It brings fear because the award is the responsibility which audiences have put on us. So a singer winning an award should always try to give best of him to the audiences. ~ Shreya Ghoshal

I don't set out to win awards. I don't think any writer does, but when you receive an award, it's an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do. Every award I have received is a confirmation of something I have done, and that motivates me to push a little harder. ~ Nitya Prakash

I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award. ~ Rachael Taylor

I find there's almost no place to put an award that one's quite comfortable with. ~ Mercedes Ruehl

The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women. ~ Marguerite Young

I never knew I'd be in a musical, let alone win an award for one. ~ Nicole Kidman

Wearing the same shirts doesn't make a team. ~ Clay Buchholz

Someone like Vincent Price or somebody like Christopher Lee, they never won an award, and it doesn't matter. They're cool. ~ Nicolas Cage

I've trained myself not to put too much emphasis on awards, only because I never got into acting to win an award. ~ Shari Sebbens

Because Ernest Lawrence's award came in the war years, I had the unusual opportunity of attending his Nobel Prize presentation ceremony. ~ Luis Walter Alvarez

I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed. ~ LeBron James

My earlier award was also based on a close collaborative effort. ~ John Bardeen

Any team sport, there are certain team targets and those targets should always be in the forefront. ~ Sachin Tendulkar

When overpowering authority or leadership intervenes in a team, it can affect the team by (1) throwing the team off track, (2) decreasing the motivation of the team, (3) reducing the commitment of the team members, and (4) causing more problems than solutions. ~ J. Richard Hackman

Values hold the team together, provide stability for the team to grow upon, measure the team's performance, give direction and guidance and attract like-minded people. ~ John C. Maxwell

Quarterbacks need to make their team better. If it's a bad team, they can even make a bad team better. ~ Fran Tarkenton

I remember I got an ALMA award for an actor being on three shows simultaneously. ~ Ian Gomez

The Heisman is the biggest award I've ever won. ~ Barry Sanders

I can't describe the feeling I got the first time I won a jury award for an injured person. ~ Joe Jamail

Tim O'Brien's book about Vietnam, 'The Things They Carried', has won every award, is studied in college and is considered to be definitive. But it's fiction. ~ Dave Eggers

I'm not trying to get back on a team, but I have tried to stay in shape just in case a team needs a point guard. A championship team. I wouldn't go to any other team. ~ Tim Hardaway

Mounting anything on a plaque instantly transforms it from trash into an award. For example, a dry disposable pen goes from junk clutter to the first annual writer's award for dry humor. ~ Jarod Kintz

I don't concern myself with award. I'd been to the party enough times to know it really didn't matter. ~ Denzel Washington

The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay. ~ Harold Pinter

I'm a big, bombastic novelist and thrill-ride guy. I'm never going to win the National Book Award. ~ Seth Grahame-Smith

Every team requires unity. A team has to move as one unit, one force, with each person understanding and assisting the roles of his teammates. If the team doesn't do this, whatever the reason, it goes down in defeat. You win or lose as a team, as a family. ~ Jack Kemp

I really, really like 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of the few things that makes me laugh. It's almost too funny to get an award. ~ Denis Leary

The hoopla with all the award season is kind of mind-boggling. It kind of puts you on your heels. ~ Jeff Bridges

I'm going for Britain's Best Dressed Man award, but strangely, I'm never on the list. ~ Anton Du Beke

At The Body Shop we had always been measured by how many jobs we had created, and I got a major award from the Queen on that. ~ Anita Roddick

Football is a team sport and not an individual sport. We win as a team, and every individual is better if we are part of the team. ~ Fernando Torres

When no other schools in the Southeastern Conference or the former Southwestern Conference would award them athletic scholarships, African Americans had been recruited by and playing for Texas Western since the 1950s. ~ Solomon Ortiz

Everything a captain does in a team room is done to keep the team loose. ~ Beth Daniel

Apart from the National Film Awards, I don't see any other award ceremony that I should give value
to. My personal experience about these award ceremonies is that I don't trust them. I have no faith
in them so I would prefer to stay away. ~ Aamir Khan

Dallas Cowboys may be America's team, but the Houston Oilers are Texas' team. ~ Bum Phillips

'Spamalot' was a blip! I've never done anything else like that, and yet it's the only time I've ever been nominated for an Olivier award! ~ Tom Goodman-Hill

At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them. ~ Garry Disher

This team is one execution away from being a very good basketball team. ~ Doc Rivers

We don't see it as revenge or payback. This year's team is a different team. ~ Taurean Green

A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball - there's just the team. ~ Cass McCombs

I've seen enough successful writers who no longer seem to care when they are recognized with an award, and I think that's just tragic. ~ Louise Penny

I love the NBA playoffs. It's just a great mental test for each team.
When it's really close, usually one team pulls together, and the other team comes apart. ~ Doc Rivers

Darwin Award. That's not a real award, it's a joke. They give them to people who die doing something so stupid that it counts as a service to humanity. ~ Gregg Dunnett

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times. ~ Dan Devine

I am too much of a team member to be separated from my team. ~ Nita Ambani

When you turn your team upside down and try to figure out what the culture of the team is, you take the greatest risk a team can take. ~ Mark Cuban

That's not very Team Reality of you."
His smile matched mine. "Screw Team Reality - I'm leaving to join Team Sanity. ~ Alexandra Bracken

LOUIS SACHAR is the author of the New York Times #1 bestseller Holes, winner of the Newbery Medal, the National Book Award, and the Christopher Award. He is also the author of Stanley Yelnats' Survival Guide to Camp Green Lake; Small Steps, winner of the Schneider Family Book Award; and The Cardturner, a Publishers Weekly Best Book, a Parents' Choice Gold Award recipient, and an ALA-YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults book. His books for younger readers include There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom, The Boy Who Lost His Face, Dogs Don't Tell Jokes, and the Marvin Redpost series, among many others. ~ Louis Sachar

It was surreal to think the Queen of England not only knew who I was but thought enough of what I do to give me an award. ~ Henry Winkler

She's not much of a team player, more of a team yeller. ~ Kim Harrison