Quotes About Teamwork

Your shot might not be falling, but there's still lots of other things you can do on the court.

It's contagious to do great. But once that one bad apple falls, everybody else will fall, and that's how it is.

Some of the onus falls on us to make ourselves available for the ball, because we need to play inside-out. That's when we're at our best.

Work for the team, work hard and when the ball falls to you you have to put it in.

We are kind of in a false reality here, playing football.

It's good to know you're working for someone you're familiar with, who's a friend and he has your back and you have his back also.

It's always nice to have the same people that you are familiar with and shorthand with, obviously, to be around you.

I think you have to obviously be familiar with how the team wants to play and play to that style. But I think you also have to find a way to be yourself.

I like having my familiarity and my specific coaches there telling me what I need to do.

I think that a lot of teams aren't as close-knit as we are because a lot of the Spanish speakers don't know English and some of the English guys don't care to try and learn Spanish and relate to Latin players.

I don't like comparing people or teams.

I've seen it again and again in my consulting: Most teams are too large to be innovative, despite their leaders' best intentions.

I've been on teams that lost a hundred games in a season. I've been on teams that had a shot to make the playoffs and fizzled out at the end.

Some of the people on the teams I've been on need to be uplifted and kind of loved on. And some people don't need that at all - they need to be pushed; more hyped up.

There is still a big onus to be coached. I understand the best teams don't need a huge amount of coaching, but that's when a coach should decide not to do coaching.

When great teams meet, there is never a problem with concentration.

I have always believed that against smaller teams is when you can give others a chance to get some runs and gain some confidence.

In any 'big science' enterprise, like planetary exploration, where you must work in big teams of similarly driven people, it is important also to know how to work alongside others even when they may be your fiercest competitors.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I'm generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we're providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we're doing so well on so many of these things. I think it's important to have gratitude for that.

Companies and football teams have become successful precisely because of how diverse they are.

Most coaches would consider leading a team to an Olympic gold medal a capper for a pretty good year. The same goes for winning an NCAA national championship. Or a FIBA world championship. Mike Krzyzewski, head coach of the Duke Blue Devils and Team USA, led teams to each of these honors... within about 24 months.

Good teams understand how to compete, how to practice the right way.

I'm a player that usually focus on my team, try to give the best for my team-mates, and I don't look much at what the other teams do.

The cinema I particularly love is the cinema of the golden age of the studios in the 1930s. One of the really nice things about it was the way teams of actors and directors and crew people worked together again and again.