It was just a huge relief to make the team.
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"I didn't come to just make the team," he said.
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Its form, plus home field, make the team the favorite.
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"He has the potential to make the team," McGinley said.
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We're putting down a deposit, so hopefully I make the team.
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"I'd be happy if I could somehow make the team," he added.
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If a trade presented itself that would make the team better, sure.
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"To make the team was the most important thing today," he said.
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Late-round picks don't actually get paid well until they make the team.
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Because we're not exceptional, no one cares enough to make the team exceptional.
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Today, first-round picks are even more likely to expect to make the team.
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"This is my last race, my last chance to make the team," said Prenot.
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My main goal is to make the team and whatever happens happens after that.
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We're supposed to make the team better than they thought they could possibly be.
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He simply wanted to make the team and establish himself as a contributing player.
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Obviously, I wanted to make the team to Rio, but I was not physically there.
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"There's so much pressure to just make the team and it's so competitive," she says.
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I don't just want to make the team, I want to win the Rio Olympics.
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Hayes's shot-blocking and dunking could complement Williamson and make the team even more athletic.
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She could attempt to make the team for her fifth Olympics, in Tokyo in 2000.
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"At one point, I was just trying to make the team," Lindsay told reporters Wednesday.
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"My next aim is to make the team to the Doha World Championships," Fraser-Pryce said.
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She last competed at an Olympics in 2010 and did not make the team in 2014.
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F LeBron James campaigned for him to make the team last month but to no avail.
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Running back Jamaal Charles is set to return from injury to make the team even better.
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One man can make the team a lot better ... no man is bigger than the team.
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A career in baseball is a marathon of endurance, but first you have to make the team.
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Weinbrecht was an outsider who trained by herself in Killington, Vermont in order to make the team.
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We have kind of been planning — and hoping — to make the team since the last Olympic Games.
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Like any other prospect, he would have to play well during spring training to make the team.
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Harry, 31, later watched some wheelchair tennis and chatted to the group hoping to make the team.
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Even if she doesn't make the team I think this is really just the beginning for her.
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Six months ago, he returned to this familiar baseball town unsure if he'd even make the team.
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Woods said Wednesday that while those faces were likely to make the team, nothing was set in stone.
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I knew something was going to happen in skateboarding, and that's what inspired me to make the team.
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It's the rare trade that would make a waning fan base happy and also make the team better.
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They missed countless shots and seemed to make the team worse every time they were on the floor.
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He is the most excited guy about the Ryder Cup, he was so happy to make the team.
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Van Wagenen said the young slugger would be given an opportunity to make the team in spring training.
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I can definitely see that if she has a great competition, there's a possibility she can make the team.
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"These cats aren't even going to make the team, and Jo's going up and down the bench," McNally said.
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I don't think they realized there was a possible opportunity that one of the players could make the team.
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It was still nice to see Green Bay's offense stretch the field and make the team seem relevant again.
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But undrafted rookie safety and fan favorite Andrew Wingard out of Wyoming was among those to make the team.
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They know it's the runners in the uniforms that make the team, not the uniforms, not even the shoes.
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Summertime is crucial for guys who are trying to make the team and who don't have much room for error.
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Although Floyd is the bigger name, Tate has a good opportunity to make the team as a special-teams contributor.
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I could try out for cheerleading, but the girls whose parents paid for cheer camp would always make the team.
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The athletes that make the team will face Olympic frontrunners China, Japan and Great Britain at the Games in August.
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" Ditka says he knows AB is one "hell of a football player" -- but notes, "One man doesn't make the team.
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Other players remember Geoffroy withholding news about the unofficial World Cup, perhaps trying not to make the team overly nervous.
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In an Instagram video recording, the 24-year-old said "this wasn't the way" he wanted to make the team, though.
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He signed a minor-league deal with the Braves in late February and had to make the team in spring training.
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But we were sold: The Flyers were going to get Eric Lindros, and he was going to make the team great.
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You figure out rather quickly who's not going to make the team, as the field winnows just like an NFL roster.
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"I used to tell my sprinters, 'If you can beat me, you make the team,'" he told The Los Angeles Times.
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For that reason, we really value people who work to make the team, people, and community around them better and stronger.
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But in order to make the team on opening day, he will need to improve his numbers against left-handed hitters.
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They make the team in a blink of the eye — or, just as fast, see years of grinding training evaporate for naught.
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When I look back and see everything that happened, I still think it's quite amazing I was able to make the team.
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If he failed, he would return to the bench, and if he won, the coach would make the team pancakes every day.
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Nelson is a wrecking ball and he is the type of offensive line prospect who can single-handedly make the team dangerous.
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Tyler Bray, hoping to make the team, hit on 18 of 27 passes for 219 yards and one interception but no TDs.
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He signed with the San Francisco 49ers as a free agent in March 2018 but didn't make the team and was released.
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Collins certainly appeared to be the one selection of the Giants' 2015 draft who would make the team proud for many seasons.
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When Willie Richardson joined the Colts, he faced stiff competition to make the team, and he learned quickly what was expected of him.
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Mickelson, 47, first has to make the team, which will not be easy given the depth of talent in the U.S. right now.
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The second star: Nathan MacKinnon has a plan – Speaking of sad Avalanche stars, this one has a plan to make the team better.
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The failure of collegiate champion Sha'Carri Richardson, who has run 10.75 in the 100, to make the team was particularly disappointing, he said.
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"If you're an American guy that swims the 100 back, you don't just aim to make the team," Barrett wrote on his blog.
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For Gabby Douglas, the defending all-around champion from the 2012 London Games, it was a relief to make the team at all.
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There is a bout of soul-searching; the manager is sacked; a new coach promises to make the team more resilient, more tenacious.
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One of the NFL's most innovative thinkers, Shanahan brought her on board for just one reason — because she can make the team better.
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More tickets are being sold, of course, because additions like Subban and Hughes and a healthier Hall should make the team much better.
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Mallya, who has not left Britain since March 2016, has said a name change would make the team more attractive to potential sponsors.
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"I would like to thank the Minnesota Vikings for giving me an opportunity to make the team after going undrafted in 2008," Abdullah wrote.
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Veronica helps both of them make the team, but as a downside, they now have to put up with Cheryl on a daily basis.
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"We are convinced that Longbow Finance S.A. is the perfect partner to again make the team competitive and successful in Formula One," said Kaltenborn.
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He didn't make the team, and later joined the Atlanta Falcons and the Kansas City Chiefs, but his stay with them was short-lived.
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I think from where we were and expectations coming in — I never even knew Mitch (Marner) could make the team — so many different things.
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Pepe recovered his place after the tournament, and was in line to make the team that defended its crown four years later in Chile.
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Though she wasn't drafted, the New York Liberty offered her a spot at its training camp, where not every player would make the team.
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Of course it wasn't really a suggestion, I couldn't say no, but the funny thing is he never expected me to make the team.
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In this construction, teams add certain packages of skills to the roster, and the combination of skill packets make the team more effective collectively.
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At just 17 years old, Pugh was one of the youngest field players to make the team&aposs roster in well over a decade.
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"Four years ago I was crying with Adam Rippon because we both didn't make the team," she said, referring to the men's singles skater.
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Sadly, I wasn't accepted to the team and I grew angry because I thought that I was going to make the team for sure.
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Among the stars at Friday's final were Rachel Fattal, Mackenzie Fischer, goalkeeper Ashleigh Johnson (the first African-American to make the team) and Kylie Neushel.
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Make the team responsible when concussion symptoms that were obvious to everyone but the doctors somehow only magically appear upon another exam five minutes later.
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"We've got a lot to do but I'm thinking guys who make the team can play," the South African told reporters on a conference call.
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But the U.C.L.A. softball standout who didn't think she'd make the team has been scoring runs anyway as the team goes for the national title.
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Given the amount of money spent last summer, particularly on João Felix, to try to make the team more expansive, it is a paltry return.
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He competed in the 1980 United States Olympic trials but did not make the team; ultimately, the United States boycotted the Summer Games in Moscow.
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It gets more intense when school starts: running a forgotten assignment to school or calling a coach to request that their child make the team.
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She didn't make any major mistakes in her elegant routine (which she regrettably changed a month prior to skating), but she still didn't make the team.
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Garcia, 38, is not the only European stalwart outside the qualifying bubble, with Swede Henrik Stenson and Englishman Ian Poulter also battling to make the team.
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Even if Knox is not among the nine players to make the team automatically, he will be in line for one of Clarke's three captain's picks.
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For years, the Dallas Mavericks have had Dirk Nowitzki doing anything he can on and off the court to try to make the team a winner.
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On a club that would win three more Cups in the next four seasons, Hand made an impression despite facing long odds to make the team.
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Yater-Wallace, who overcame a hard-luck string of injury and illness to make the team, finished ninth, with a score no higher than a 65.2.
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It tends to generate a lot of useless data, rope the employer into liability issues, and generally make the team that monitors these surveillance systems miserable.
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Taking a drop pass from Sissons, Salomaki, who didn't make the team out of camp, blistered the puck past Stalock for his first goal of the season.
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Missy Franklin and Matt Grevers, the reigning Olympic gold medalists in the women's and men's 100-meter backstrokes, both failed to make the team in those events.
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It is difficult to draw direct comparisons between the men's and women's pay because men are only paid if they make the team and receive larger bonuses.
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Where Apex really starts to shine, beyond the novelty of having ultimate attacks, is in all the thoughtful ways Respawn tries to make the team experience more enjoyable.
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Orioles RH Kevin Gausman (24-8, 4.18) Hamels was Texas' big acquisition at last season's trade deadline and has done nothing to make the team regret that move.
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He did not make the team in 2016, largely because of an arthritic foot that made it difficult for him to walk, much less beat Americans at golf.
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Knowing there was a logjam of outfielders, he wanted to make the team out of spring training, which he did, in part, because of Juan Lagares's oblique injury.
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As he was barreling down the lane, needing first or second to make the team, the sun glinted in his eye and sent him crashing into the lane marker.
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He will be responsible for nurturing local talent, and trying to make the team less reliant on imported players: just six of the current squad hail from North America.
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Four years later, I won an NCAA Championship in the 200-meter freestyle and found myself going into the Olympic trials positioned with a shot to make the team.
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The door opened for Karlsson when Vadim Shipachyov, the Knights' first marquee signing, did not make the team out of training camp and returned to Russia's Kontinental Hockey League.
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I'm going to add some tournaments to try to get up on the list and make the team on the points, so we'll see if I can do it.
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The Dodgers had acquired him from Cleveland before the 22004 season for two minor leaguers, but there were few expectations he would make the team, let alone an impact.
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Its only two official matches since qualification — a 4-0 loss to Spain and a 4-0 victory against the Spanish club Levante — make the team tough to read.
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It'll be stunning if Walmsley runs in the vicinity of a 2:10 marathon in his first attempt, which is probably what it will take to make the team.
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According to a post on Reddit, the meaning of the acronym is kept so hush-hush that the only way to really learn it is to make the team.
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After his CFL days, Schultz was invited to try out with the New York Jets, but he did not make the team and decided to focus on the media industry.
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Vedvik was not expected to make the team when the rosters were finalized Saturday afternoon because Baltimore has Justin Tucker, a two-time First-Team All-Pro, at the position.
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That's the punch line of a comprehensive analysis of 168 studies of more than 51,000 employees across industries: Leaders reward people who make the team and the organization more successful.
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Rhona told me that whereas in her teens she didn't want to look muscular or strong, now she needs to be in order to make the team and be successful.
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So I talked to my agent, and we figured out the best situation for myself and for my family, and where I had the best chance to make the team.
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Managers are encouraged to look for people who will make the team more productive, even (and especially) if those people don&apost look or act like everyone else on the team.
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Since half the male student body was in the military, I figured I had a better-than-even chance to make the team and start down the path to fame and fortune.
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He did not make the team out of camp and was moved into a starting role with Colorado Springs, where went 2-2 with a 3.13 ERA in 20 games (10 starts).
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After his college career ended, Alston tried out for the New Orleans Saints but did not make the team, so he headed back to Newport News to start his post-football life.
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Cessa, who is out of minor league options and would need to make the team out of spring training or be removed from the roster, is also a candidate for the bullpen.
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They want to inspire all of their employees to achieve their personal best – not just because it will make the team more successful, but because they care about each person as an individual.
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"There is no 'A' or 'B' team here," it said after chronicling the amount of work put in by more than 1,000 employees at the factory and racetrack to make the team successful.
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Instead of culture fit, which "can be used to exclude," Entelo CEO Jon Bischke said, the company tries to focus more on culture add and how potential hires can make the team better.
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This is the first time that Kaymer has had to rely on a captain's pick to make the team but he believes it will have no bearing on his performance or his mindset.
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Brianna Rollins, Nia Ali and Kristi Castlin of the United States swept the 100-meter hurdles in Rio while the world-record holder, an American named Kendra Harrison, did not make the team.
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He was a keen fan of the sport and the push to make the team the best in the world had not been simply a business decision but one of personal passion, too.
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"I feel sorry for the guys that didn't make the team, and I feel sorry for the guys around the world who didn't come here or couldn't come here," he said after his 73.
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The boys at the academy hope not only to make the team one day but also to turn Mexico into what it has long aspired to be: a soccer powerhouse on the world stage.
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The Kings will probably be on the hook for his $25.1 million player option next year, and if he isn't on board to shift his style of play, he could make the team worse.
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"Not having that player make the team may have been our best move all year because it sent the message to everyone that nothing matters other than the way you compete and perform," McPhee said.
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Now that he has some security in the role, Drew, who played 10 years in the N.B.A. before transitioning to coaching for the 1992-93 season, has a chance to make the team his own.
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As with athletes who make the team at the Olympics, the selection of an artist to represent the United States at the 21968th Venice Biennale next spring is a big deal in the art world.
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The American figure skater Mirai Nagasu will compete for gold in the free skate program, four years after she failed to make the team at Sochi and was presumed to have aged out of the competition.
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"I knew I was in the running with a handful of guys but you just never know what he's thinking," Finau, who narrowly failed to make the team automatically, said in a telephone interview with Reuters.
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" Kawhi's spirit stayed with the boy for his entire life, doling out advice about "sacrifice" and "working to make the team better" and "getting in a DEEP defensive stance so you can maximize your vertical movement.
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He sits seventh in the U.S. standings, and while Fowler will almost certainly make the team one way or another, Furyk would like to see one of his young guns step up and make a bold statement.
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Goodman would like to run a sub-8:40 in the 3,000-meter steeplechase and to qualify for the Olympic trials in mid-June, though he knows it's a long shot for him to make the team.
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But make that player a Pittsburgh Steelers legend, add some angry comments from his teammates, and, oh, make the team that signed him the always polarizing New England Patriots, and you've got this week's N.F.L. hot topic.
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There is no telling what will happen at the Rio Games in August, but for most swimmers the most nerve-racking part is right now, when they are trying to make the team in the fiercely competitive trials.
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Seeming stuck between the stereotypical norms of femininity and what she felt in her heart was right for girls, she did what she could to make the team competitive, reaching out to the boys' varsity coach for tips.
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A return to a relevant team could unlock the complementary player who helped Golden State soar, and for a franchise that has often been accused of sabotaging itself, this is a real attempt to make the team better.
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The 61-year-old is on a mission to become the oldest person ever to play in the NBA after failing to make the team when he was selected by the San Antonio Spurs in the 1980 NBA Draft.
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While competing for the Bills, Trump sidestepped the distance between his financial interests and Buffalo's by arguing that they were actually in line: He promised to both make the team thrive for him and keep it in the city.
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I went from being one of the best players in Australia to being at Spring Training for the first time and you're just one of 20.71 guys trying to make the team — most of which are better than you.
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And in his push to make the team, and his success at the event, he has also proved capable of handling a big stage and fulfilling the potential he showed as a ballyhooed amateur more than a decade ago.
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The Bulls star didn't make the team for the first time in 12 seasons, but it clearly doesn't look like he had a case of FOMO ... especially with his gorgeous wife, Gabrielle Union, showing off her killer bikini bod.
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If all goes to plan, Marino will lead a group of young snowboarders to their first Olympics, with teenage prospects Chloe Kim, Hailey Langland and Chris Corning all expected to make the team at the expense of more experienced riders.
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He became more at peace about his role in the game and on a new team, the San Francisco Giants, who signed him in February as a third baseman with a chance — just a chance — to make the team out of spring training.
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Yet while things seemed perfect on the outside, Overholt's decision to make swimming her singular focus in the build-up to Rio, which meant spending little time with family and friends, and the pressure to make the team were affecting her mental health.
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Lugo, an unheralded prospect who helped the Mets reach the playoffs last season, pitched well in the World Baseball Classic but struggled in his first spring-training start for the Mets, suggesting he had pushed himself too hard to make the team.
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Until the United States' final roster for the world juniors was announced just before Christmas, Terry was not certain he would make the team — so much so that his parents made no plans to be in Toronto and Montreal for the tournament.
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"They've already been really, really successful without me here, and I think now that they have me and Carlos (Beltran), hopefully we can make the team that much better that we can become competitive to a point that we can win this thing," he said.
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ABOUT THE LAKERS (2115-31): Backup guards Lou Williams (team-best 17.8) and Jordan Clarkson (14 per game) rank as two of the team's top three scorers, and the prevailing thought is that elevating one to the starting lineup might make the team better.
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He should be going to demonstrate the strength and resolve of our alliance with South Korea, to support them in their efforts to host a safe and exciting Games, and to cheer on our athletes who have worked so hard to make the team.
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But before dreaming of playing in the Super Bowl and spending evenings in the most exclusive clubs in New York City, the 27-year-old wide receiver, who calls himself Dablatron on social media, has to convince his coaches that he needs to make the team.
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Right now, the players are focused on the work at hand, and until that first cut, they all know they have the same opportunity as every player in camp: to make the team, make history, and for those at the end of their careers, buy time.
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It was a good strategy given the situation, and it was unique mainly in how little money it cost the people running the Rays to pull off; "developing young players over a long period of time to make the team better" was not particularly a new concept in baseball.
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They're probably committed to Hoiberg for at least another season, and the general bad vibes surrounding the team—from the oversalted dismissal of Thibodeau to the declining success since his departure—won't make the team more attractive to quality free agents, who almost never come to Chicago anyway.
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"I didn't want to make the team this way, but when Juli told me what was going on with Stacy, I was ready to step into either role, if that was being here and being part of the experience or being ready to tee it up," McDonald said.
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Andrew Wiggins will continue to confound the game's number-crunchers, and the desire to make the team a retirement home for all of Thibodeau's old players from Chicago — bringing back Derrick Rose is a bad move, but their rumored interest in Joakim Noah is far worse — has been overindulged.
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But this move is about the next two years, and the combination of Paul and James Harden will continue to make the team the greatest threat to the Golden State Warriors in the Western Conference (barring something like a super team developing around LeBron James in Los Angeles).
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"When spring training started, I didn't know if I would really have an actual chance to be on the team and make the team and be here," Gallo said "So just to be here, be contributing to wins for this team, helping this team out, it's pretty awesome."
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She said that when Douglas and Aly Raisman, another 2012 Olympic gold medalist trying to make the team for Rio, came back to national team camp, she sat them down and told them that she was glad to have them, but warned that they weren't going to get any breaks.
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They also have to assert that long-held structural differences (such as a bonus system in which men are paid a high bonus per game, but only if they make the team, while women receive a standard base salary as well as small game bonus) between the teams are, in fact, discriminatory.
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Woods, currently 12th in the Presidents Cup points standings and trying to make the team himself, posted a picture on social media Tuesday of himself surrounded by the top 14 players in the standings, including top-eight players Koepka, Johnson, Justin Thomas, Xander Schauffele, Matt Kuchar, Webb Simpson, Bryson DeChambeau and Patrick Cantlay.
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Each team has its own collective bargaining agreement with U.S. Soccer, and among the major differences is pay structure: The men receive higher game bonuses when they play for the United States, but are paid only when they make the team, while the women receive guaranteed salaries supplemented by smaller match bonuses.
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In fact, he and fellow teammate Mirai Nagasu, who became the first American woman to land a triple Axel at an Olympics this year, both failed to make the team: "We were eating In-N-Out because we were so upset we weren't at the Olympic games," Rippon told NBC after his performance.
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The company declined to make the team available for interviews, but Marvel Entertainment director of software engineering Lori Lombert shared on Twitter that they built it using FrontPage, an HTML editor from the late '90s into the early aughts, and hosted it on Angelfire, a service that launched in 1996 and, surprise, still exists.
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"We have to make sure we get the stick around and make the people who make the team have some transparency and cohesiveness in what they are doing," said Richburg, who has worked with USA Track & Field (USATF) programs since 1989 and served as the 2001 world championships head coach and 2008 Olympic relays coach.
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But because a player is incentivized to make the team in September—because that's the only way he makes his money—he's likely to hide concussion symptoms so he can continue to play and practice, feeling he has to tough it out because he can't make the 53-man roster from the training room.
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The school has invested plenty in the team; a couple of months ago an indoor practice field on prime lakefront property opened, part of a $270 million complex that Northwestern hopes will lure recruits and render practices more efficient — and make the team more competitive in a conference that has a lucrative television deal.
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When the North Face hires its first team of professional climbers in 1994 — a heretofore unheard-of position that introduces the politics of corporate alignment to daredevils on the fringes — Synnott isn't among them, but he does make the team in a subsequent year, further enabling both his quest for adventure and his corporate allegiance.
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Which is to say: it seems to me like the easiest way to add value to these Jays would be to find a legit second baseman for the rest of the season, but it's entirely possible their best way to make the team better (while preserving future assets as best they can) may not run through second base.
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"Because we are such a small country and we didn't have many good players, we had to focus on playing as a team with a strong defensive game, but after that symposium, we started focusing on making the individual players better so that we could also make the team better with more skill," said Matti Nurminen, general director of the Finnish association.
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