Quotes About Teamwork

Whether you're on a sports team, in an office or a member of a family, if you can't trust one another there's going to be trouble.

Trust processes as well as people.

Trust is a powerful accelerator to performance and when trust goes up, speed also goes up while cost comes down - producing what we call a trust dividend.

I love the process of working with people and having things going on, all the time, and just trying to trust your instincts.

I think it's huge, especially in team sports, for players to be able to rely on each other and to really trust in each other.

When there is trust, conflict becomes nothing but the pursuit of truth, an attempt to find the best possible answer.

We're like the Three Musketeers, searching for truth and justice and the American way.: Glitch snorted. "More like the Three Blind Mice, stumbling around trying to find a hunk of cheese in the dark.

Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.

Ric placed his elbows on his desk and rested his chin in the palms of his hand. "So, let me sum up - we've got one vote for total annihilation and one vote for forcing them to join the hockey team. Am I correct?" "Yes," both females replied.

Alone, every one of us may be pretty amazing, but together..." "We could run the world

On a team, it's not the strength of the individual players, but the strength of the unit and how they all function together

It would be a joy for me if someone who was working with me became a big success.

I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make.

Women love working together. That's my experience anyway.

I've learned this is a very long marriage doing a television show. I like the people that I work with to be people I enjoy, so you want to cast people who are as excited and enthusiastic as you are.

A perfect leader is like the nose..... Always leads from the front however knows when to let others take charge

Entrepreneurship is the courage to take responsibility for at least one other person's life

Playing Sports without a team, is like living life without a family.

You see, goalies are different from other hockey players. We never cheer against each other. Why? Only goalies truly know what it's like to be a goalie. Because you're the last player between the puck and the net, the blame always falls on you when the other team scores a goal.

I'm fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can organise play, the spirit of play.

The average player has the ball for only 53.4 seconds every game (according to Chris Carling, the English performance analyst at Lille in France) so any player's main job is to occupy the right positions for the other eighty-nine minutes and 6.6 seconds.

Clubs know they cannot operate without opponents, and so unlike in most businesses, the collapse of a rival is not cause for celebration.

I also try to use a technique that has worked well for me in relationships: if someone believes really strongly that we should do something, whether it's the assistant producer or the executive in charge, we generally do it. Enthusiasm trumps apathy.

He had been on operations alongside his British counterparts and said that although American special forces teams had access to more resources, such as equipment, planes and satellites, the British were especially good because they endlessly ran through war-game scenarios. They practised, over and over. They prepared. 'Then when it all goes south,' said the American admiringly, 'they really know what to do.