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there's no I in team

there's no I in team proverb: teamwork should focus on the needs of the team, not on the individual.

Proverb

there's no I in team

  1. Teamwork should focus on the needs of the team, not on the individual.
    • As Mr. Sloan always says, there is no "I" in "team", but there is an "I" in "pie". And there's an "I" in "meat pie". Anagram of "meat" is "team"… I don't know what he's talking about.2004, Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright, Shaun of the Dead, spoken by Shaun (Simon Pegg)

Origin of there's no I in team

Involving wordplay with I (pronoun) and the fact that there is no letter i in the word team.

Questions about there's no I in team

What does there's no I in team mean?
There's no I in team means teamwork should focus on the needs of the team, not on the individual.
What part of speech is there's no I in team?
There's no I in team is a proverb.

Words near there's no I in team in the dictionary

  1. there's more where that came from
  2. there's no "there" there
  3. there's no accounting for taste
  4. there's no business like show business
  5. there's no fool like an old fool
  6. there's no I in team
  7. there's no place like home
  8. there's no point crying over spilt milk
  9. there's no shame in my game
  10. there's no smoke without fire
  11. there's no such thing as a free lunch

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