Cricket is a game of the most terrifying stresses with more luck about it than any other game I know. They call it a team game, but in fact it is the loneliest game of all.

-Aristotle
Another Word from  Arlott.

  It's all changed now, which is why it mattered to those young men from Liverpool that they should be there to support their team.What other group isgoing to troop their colours for them, present them with scarves and emblems?

-Bainbridge, Dame Beryl Margaret
  After the Hillsborough football disaster. Quoted in David Pickering The Cassell Soccer Companion (1994).

Some time, Rock, when the team's up against it, when things are wrong and the breaks are beating the boys^tell themtogo intherewith all they'vegot and win just one for the Gipper.

-Gipp, George
  Last words, to coach Knute Rockne. Rockne told the team about Gipp's request in1928, when their fortunes were low, and inspired the squad to new efforts.'Win one for the Gipper' subsequently became a catchphrase throughout US sport.

When I go to see Herr Hitler I give him the Nazi salute because that is the normal thing. It carries no hint of approval of anything he or hisregimemaydo. And, if Ido it, why should you or your team object?

-Henderson, Sir Nevile Meyrick
   When asked for advice by the England football team in 1938 about giving the Nazi salute before a match in Berlin against Germany. The England team gave the salute, and thereby attracted considerable notoriety at home.

He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle, And away they all flew like the down of a thistle. But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight, 'Happy Christmas to all. And to all a good night.'

-Moore, Clement
  The Night Before Christmas.

A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.

-Winner, Langdon
Attributed.