“Football is a team sport, and there is no one individual who is bigger than the next person.”

“I am embarrassingly incompetent at football or any kind of team sport. I’m so bad it would anger you.”

Derren Brown (1971) British illusionist

“A team is not made up of isolated individuals. Always stay in the game. Don’t be passive. Football is a team game. No one plays alone. Success depends on your whole team being a single unit.”

Pelé (1940–2022) Brazilian association football player

“I am constantly being asked about individuals. The only way to win is as a team. Football is not about one or two or three star players.”

Pelé (1940–2022) Brazilian association football player

“Tackle football is a body-mind sport; flag football is a mind-body sport.”

Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate

“One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organization do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.”

Aiden Wilson Tozer (1897–1963) American missionary

“Any guy who’s played team sports has practiced a skill I call “team sport empathy”: he’s practiced focusing on anticipating the other team’s moves. That means figuring out their way of looking at the situation.”

Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate

“If organized team sports develop managerial skills for a corporate setting, pickup team sports are more like training to be an entrepreneur… Pickup team sports are still about 99% male. That is, this form of preparation to be an entrepreneur is about 99% male socialization. I believe this is one of many contributors to why men who run their own business earn twice what their female counterparts earn.”

Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate

“Football is the only sport where you put people together, it doesn’t matter if you are rich, or poor, or black, or white. It is one nation. This is the beauty of football.”

Pelé (1940–2022) Brazilian association football player

“Guys care about sports teams. I'm not talking about simply rooting; I'm talking about a relationship that guys develop, a commitment to a sport team that guys take way more seriously than, for example, wedding vows.”

Dave Barry (1947) American writer