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“The Silicon Valley culture is "I can win and you can win" - it isn't a sum-zero game.”
Steve Blank (1953) American businessman
Interview with Steve Blank (2013)
“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.”
Michael Jordan (1963) American retired professional basketball player and businessman
Source: Jordan, Michael. I Can't Accept Not Trying : Michael Jordan on the Pursuit of Excellence. San Francisco, CA: HarperSanFrancisco, 1994. p. 129
Context: I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying [no hard work].
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. (p. 20, 24)
James P. Carse American academic
Source: Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility
“The game itself is bigger than the winning.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
“Game II,” p. 97
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “A Game”
“Yes, my biggest game, but not my best game. My best game is when I drive in the winning run.”
Roberto Clemente (1934–1972) Puerto Rican baseball player
Bemoaning his wasted 3-home run/7-RBI performance of May 15, 1967; as quoted in “Biggest Game Wasted: Roberto Collects 3 HRs, 7 RBIs As Bucs Lose, 8-7” by Les Biederman, in The Pittsburgh Press (Tuesday, May 16, 1967), p. 34
Baseball-related, <big><big>1960s</big></big>, <big>1967</big>
“It's important that you win games at any level.”
Phil Brown (footballer) (1959) English association football player and manager
27-Feb-2009, Hull Daily Mail
He's getting the hang of this football management lark!