Quotes About Teamwork

I've been surrounded by good people at West Virginia. That helped me a lot.

In student government in high school, I learned how to deal with people, and in college I studied Eastern philosophy. I'm also an avid team-sports fan. I think I just blended them all together and came out with a business management philosophy that combines the Eastern ethic with the Western sport concept, basically.

The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction.

One of our secret-sauce powers is that our people don't just write checks and place the ads, but our employees go the extra mile to get things done.

When we built Amblin, we even put Murphy beds in there because we thought that was so practical. Why would anybody, if you were working on something, need to go home at night? You'd just stay there, wake up in the morning, and carry on.

Ribbing is a part of wrestling. That's the way they show a fondness for you - they play practical jokes on you. They put your wrestling gear in plastic bags and throw it in the shower. Just stupid stuff.

I think the most rewarding part of the job, and I think most coaches would say it, is practice. If you have it, a very good practice in which you have 12 guys participate, and they can really get something out of it, lose themselves in practice.

You earn playing time on the practice floor.

I don't want to sit around the house. I want to be out there. I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That's me.

Ideally, you want to have some guys get that rest... Because after 70-something games, you've practiced enough.

That's a part of being a good football team and being good players is when it's time to go play and turn what you've practiced, what you've watched, into the game reality, we've got to go do that.

The last couple of practices, all we've been doing is a lot of defensive things. We've been going over some drills that make all of us have to communicate.

It's great to have great practices during the week, but you gotta make sure you are performing on game day and making those plays for your team.

I love practicing with the guys.

I try hard to always question myself and wonder, 'What could I have done better? What did I do wrong?' The culture at our company is to be self-critical, but you have to balance that as a leader with praise for your team.

When you win, everything is everything. But when you lose, it's all about Allen Iverson and Larry Brown. When we win, I know that I get the praise and Larry Brown gets the praise, but when we lose, it's on me and Larry Brown. That's something that I have to learn to accept and deal with.

Our bigs do a lot for us guards to get us shots, to get us shots, to get us open buckets, that they deserve the praise.

In one's relationship with dogs and with a newsroom, a generous amount of praise and encouragement goes much better than criticism.

Sometimes you have to praise players.

I think coaches who don't coddle but praise players when they deserve it get the best results.

I'm a big believer in building a crew. Movies are the most collaborative art form at the tend of the world, and it takes hundreds of people to make one. At the end of the day, I get the lion's share of praise or blame but everybody on the ground knows that it was all of us.

Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom.

I have never forced anyone to offer prayers in the team or to keep a beard.

That's something you want to preach throughout the whole defense - getting the ball back to the offense.