John Breaux Quotes

The team came together. We're looking forward to the next race.

Bipartisanship means you work together to work it out.

The thing it taught me was that winning's a helluva lot more fun than losing. It also taught me that the team with the best players that worked together the best wins.

I think people have different definitions of team unity. My definition is doing whatever it takes to win, what makes a great team; it's performance on the field, respect on the field.

Partnership is the way. Dictatorial win-lose is so old-school.

A team sport is not very good for me, because I can't take losing.

Theater and sports are connected. You've got your team - or ensemble - your goal and your determination to win.

For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.

To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players.

I think if you're going to get anything done in the Senate, you have to be on the same sheet of music. If you don't get people on the same sheet of music it comes out pretty horrible.

It takes a lot of people to make a winning team. Everybody's contribution is important.

What I like about Bain Capital is that we have Republicans, we have Democrats, we have independents; we are a diverse firm in terms of political views. But what we do is we sit down and we try to solve the problems.

Obviously, you want to help the team win in any way possible. If that's scoring goals, great.

The chairman of a committee should be in harmony with the majority who constitute it.

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit.

You don't compromise principles, but you harmonize tactics to preserve unity.

Our country must be strong enough to solve problems, and that means we must learn how to work together again.

It doesn't matter who scores the goals, just that we win the games.

I want to do whatever will make my team win.

I wasn't looking for a hobby. If I were looking for a hobby, it wouldn't be the United States Senate. That's one of the toughest jobs I'd probably ever do. I just felt there wasn't enough compromise going on: People were too far to the left, too far to the right, with no one trying to build a compromise.

If everyone's on the same page, doesn't matter what race, what background, what religion you are, if everyone comes together like a good, solid football team, baseball team... that's how you win games. It's easy.

When I'm playing in a close game, I'm out on the floor only trying to help the team win.

There's a way to win, and a way to play, and when you play like that, the ball's moving and guys are looking for each other, the game is fun.

I try to do what's best for the team, try to get the win, and try to have success on offense.