Quotes About Teamwork

Just coming here to Pittsburgh, I just wanted to prove to the coaching staff and my teammates how much I love football.

For me, I grew up watching really good Detroit Pistons teams.

All those teams I was on that were successful were the ones that everyone had love for each other and had fun. Things that seem minuscule - joking around, laughing, conversing, all those things that seem childish - that is what builds camaraderie.

In any team sport, the best teams have consistency and chemistry.

I am a believer in passing the ball on the ground, I was lucky to be part of teams like that at Arsenal, with the French national team and with Monaco and at Barcelona. I know you can win in other ways, but I believe that is the way football should be played.

At the moment there are some England players who are the stars of their club teams, but not for their country. It's difficult to explain.

The key is having great players. But there are a lot of teams that have All-Stars and haven't been able to put it together.

The teams that defend well are as important as those that attack well. If you don't concede goals it is much easier to win but it is all about having balance.

In the bad old days, captains were not good leaders. They didn't build teams; they were arrogant and autocratic.

I like people who are working on practical things and who are working in teams. It's not so important to get the glory. It's much more important to get something that works. It's a better way to live.

Good teams have good rotation.

I've been on the cover of 'Time' magazine three times, not for my beauty but because what I was doing was newsworthy around the world. I've worked with teams all my life, but I've been nice and I've been kind.

There's three parts to football: offense, defense, and special teams. You'd no more ignore special teams than you would offense or defense.

Most teams are naturally flat; they have fewer members than a large enterprise, which allows for intimacy and trust to form. This makes collaborative problem solving in individual teams more straightforward.

To continue to fight, not get frustrated, to stay together and find a way - I think that's important. I think good teams do that.

Google teams have lots of autonomy, including from people like me.

It's that way all the way down the line. I've got a boy coaching college ball and another son coaching high school. All the way down to summer leagues, all the way down to kids who are 14 years old. All those teams have a closer.

Humility is what makes teams great. I've preached it for a long period of time.

After formulating and communicating the right strategy and optimizing operations to execute that strategy, CEOs and other top leaders then must be able to build management teams that truly understand the big picture.

Tough teams win when the shots are not going.

We named the book 'Extreme Ownership' because we really found that when we looked at not only at leaders but at teams that were the most successful, we found that the ones that had this attitude of extreme ownership were the ones that did the best, and it's definitely an attitude that I had.

When I grew up, my father taught us the value of hard work. He wanted us to enjoy ourselves, but he also wanted to know what it took to be successful. He coached a lot of our sports teams growing up. We weren't very good, but we learned about hard work and enjoying life and your teammates.

One of the things that makes the best teams in the world the best is the fact that, across midfield and up top, they are capable of hurting you.

High school was really fun. I had lots of friends, I had activities, like basketball teams.