Quotes About Teamwork

It's extremely instructive to realize that you cannot do everything. You need to delegate, to find experts, to consult with them. A big part of the job of directing is knowing when to take something on and when you shouldn't.

I know that any group of people can become a team if they do the right things, but I came to realize over time that if you acquire or develop the right kind of people, that process of building a team is going to be much more effective and easier.

But when it came to jamming and writing songs like we used to, we realized Brandon was a huge spirit in the band. Who knew? It was just something we had to learn.

I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.

I'm realizing I need to be in close proximity to everyone I'm working with because that - I don't know - it keeps me engaged.

I beg. I call. I badger. I cajole. Part of the secret is everyone has fun and that's really motivating.

When I was with the Giants, I played for Dusty Baker, and I love Dusty to death. I think he's a great manager and great person, but he platooned me. His reasoning was to get everybody in the lineup. It wasn't that I couldn't play every day.

The thing I really look for in this business is there are guys who are into football and there are guys who are in the profession for other reasons.

Buffon, for us, is the captain. He is the player with the most experience and we are lucky to have the man who I believe is the best goalkeeper of all time defending our goal. We always try to make sure that he has to make very few saves, but it is extremely reassuring having him in goal.

The bottom line is, I want us to rebound, defend, share the ball, play hard. That's all. Now if you can't do that, if that's not important enough to you, it's not on me.

In Chicago, they wanted Michael to do his thing and me to be just rebound. I'm more than a rebounder.

That's why big guys exist. It's our job to protect the paint. It's our job to rebound. And it's our job to get the easy points.

It's not just passing, I gotta play defense, I gotta rebound, I gotta talk, I could have 40 and not talk and not bring energy. But it's just trying to have an all-around game, just trying to be the leader I can be, get the pace up.

I think it shows my toughness that guys feel like I can rebound. You put me in there to rebound, and I'm gonna get the job done. Anything the coach needs me to do.

If the team needs to score, I'm going to score. If the team needs me to rebound, I'm going to rebound. Play defense, I play defense.

I just see the ball and I go for it. It's wanting to make a winning play for the team and get a rebound.

I'll dive on loose balls. I'll get the winning rebound, hit the winning shot. I'll do whatever it takes to win a game.

I'm never going to be a point guard, but you always have guards that get the rebound and take it coast-to-coast.

I gotta defend, I gotta protect the rim, I gotta rebound, I gotta set good picks for the guys, finish on offense, and I think that is not going to change much.

You have to stay locked in. You're so locked in on guarding your guy you figure when the ball goes up the bigs are going to get it. But the possessions not over until you get the rebound.

Money comes, and money goes. I just want to win games. I could care less how much money is riding on a rebound.

When you defend and rebound and you trust the pass on the offensive end, you're going to have the ability to win a lot of games.

I'm pretty sure I'm not looked at to score 20 a game. I can just do all the other stuff - rebound, defend, make plays.

I'm a willing passer. And I rebound.