Quotes About Teamwork

A lot of guys came together quickly as a group, as more than just teammates, as friends. Your family get to know each other, and you become really close, and that's a big part of the team aspect is caring about your teammates off the field, getting to know their kids, their families, their wives.

We saw more of each other than we did of our wives. We wrote everything together. But how long can you go on doing that? How long can you go on being half an entity?

My wife talks a lot with Fernandinho and Ederson's wives.

I have never believed in the Wizard of Oz theory of consulting, that I am all-knowing and all-seeing, and that everyone around me is kind of a backbencher.

When you work on a Dick Wolf show, it's as if you've joined a second family.

I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack.

In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

Lone wolves won't succeed with IoT. This is a team sport.

I think Wolves are getting the best out of me, and I'm giving Wolves my best football, but they are giving the best to me too.

I'm not playing for Wolves just so I can get in squads. I'm concentrated on playing for Wolves.

Every sitcom needs their straight man or straight woman.

Being surrounded by great women and amazing role models and good teammates allowed me to unfold and evolve into the person that I am today.

I was thrilled and amazed when I found out we won the Nobel Prize. The dedicated and talented women and men of the COBE team collaborated to produce the science results being recognized. This is truly such a rare and special honor.

I'm interested in working with great people and exploring great themes in different mediums.

Good people hire people better than themselves. So A players hire A+ players. But others hire below their skills to make themselves look good. So B players hire C players. C players hire D players, etc.

People want to be part of something that's bigger than themselves. It's motivating. It helps all of us to work harder.

Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.

Successful leaders surround themselves with intelligent people.

I wouldn't ask any of my employees to do anything I wouldn't do. And I work as hard, if not harder than the rest of the staff, to set an example. I also believe in giving my employees a lot of room to be creative and to express themselves.

No one can do anything by themselves. Sometimes you may need help and sometimes you will be offering it.

Leaders who are kind of insecure or egocentric, they basically sabotage themselves.

Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.

I was still a serving officer when I competed in 'Scrapheap Challenge,' initially as a major and then a lieutenant-colonel when I was joined by my brothers in a team called 'Brothers in Arms.'

And then I met Jerry and he's such a creative fiction writer, and I don't know if there's ever been a team put together the way we are - where one person does the theological way out and suggestions, and the other person goes into the cave and does the fiction writing.