Quotes About Teamwork

I think the hardest to replace has been Johnny Collins. He was great to play with. You could always rely on him to be available for a short pass, allowing you time to clear a ball. He would never give the ball away.

I tried the broadcasting thing, the coaching thing, but I'll never replace the competitive feeling of being out on the field when we were players.

When I joined Chelsea, I had to replace Petr Cech. I still talk to him today; he's a friend.

A great leader should make it clear to her team members that as a matter of culture, her job is to replace herself. A new hire should know from the outset that she will ultimately have to bring in new talent to replace herself so that she can personally better herself and achieve loftier goals.

It's difficult to say you can replace Franck Ribery one on one with another player.

The important thing is that when somebody isn't in top form, there is another ready to replace him.

I always believe that there are players that are hard to replace.

It's impossible to replace him. You will not find another Messi, but you can train a team without having the best in the world.

It would be difficult to replace Misbah and Younis.

When you know that if you are not performing well there are three or four others who can replace you, it automatically boosts me to work harder.

Competition must be replaced by cooperation.

You can never really replicate the dressing-room environment and building something as a group of players.

The dressing-room environment is very difficult to replicate, camaraderie is very important.

Constantly probe the people who report to you, and encourage them to probe you.

When I'm hiring leaders, I pay a lot of attention to what their peers and what people who report to them say about them. We want people who relate well with their peers and cooperate in an exchange of information rather than being overly competitive.

To build more interest in goalkeeping, we have to change how people think and report on goalkeepers. You are not just there to keep the ball out of the back of the net: you are there to impact the back four, to organise the team, essentially lead from the back. It is a really pivotal position.

We have the wrong people chasing Osama bin Laden. It ought to be athletic directors and reporters. They'll find you.

I try to spend a lot of time with people outside my direct reports. The view from the top is totally distorted. If you only spend time with your directs, you have no perspective on what's really going on.

Our main thing was playing basketball and just trying to win games. Doing that was a representation of who you are and people wanting to associate themselves with you.

People make mistakes along the way. Cricket means I may not always be there for everyone all the time. But when I take the field for my country, I know there are a lot of people I am representing.

That's what makes the Ryder Cup in golf so much better than the Masters or the U.S. Open. To be a part of something that is not about personal achievement, but about representing everyone and sharing it with the whole country, it's wonderful.

Playing the game, representing the team, giving my all and never letting go has meant everything to me.

That's what I care about is the people I work with and representing them and helping to make their music apparent for the rest of the world.

We took pride in representing where we came from, took pride in being from small places, and places all around the world and being able to come together and make ourselves into a team, into a group of guys with one goal and get that done.