Quotes About Teamwork

'Where The Wild Things Are,' I think I could have written on my own. When I brought Dave Eggers on, I already had 60 pages of notes. I technically could have, but I don't think I was ready to. I needed him to be there and help me.

Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically.

I think the players win the championship, and the organization has something to do with it, don't get me wrong. But don't try to put the organization above the players.

I feel like, even if something goes wrong, I have confidence in myself and my team that we'll fix it.

Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.

The culture of undermining sends signals of disrespect. This approach not only saps motivation and undermines teamwork, it also lowers the motivation to work extra hours anticipating what can go wrong.

You can never go wrong when you have a great team to work with.

As long as everyone does their part - the attackers score the goals, and the defenders keep the clean sheets - then you can't go too wrong.

The whole period has taught me that I enjoy being part of an ensemble rather than just a front man. Don't get me wrong - I enjoy that too, but I get more enjoyment out of really listening to everyone.

As a team and as a player, it's about winning, and if you're only thinking about yourself, you're thinking about the wrong thing.

I call a spade a spade. If you're doing things the wrong way, I'm going to let you know regardless if you're the max-contract guy on the team or the two-way guy on the team.

In every game, there's three teams out there. There's the two basketball teams and the team of officials. If the two teams are evenly matched, it can come down to number of possessions. If one out-of-bounds call goes the wrong way, that can be the difference.

I always commit myself to the teams I play for and always want to win. I hate losing. It's just that, at times, I go about things the wrong way, and that created problems.

When a player joins El Tri, he doesn't want to do things the wrong way.

We play the right way at the Spurs. We don't go about business the wrong way, we play hard and represent the Spurs the best way we can.

I'm a player that wants to do their best for the team and work hard. And maybe people take that the wrong way, I don't know.

It was about 105 degrees in Chicago. And that's a time when everybody gets tired. I came into the clubhouse, and everybody was sitting around, and I said, 'Beautiful day. Let's play two!' And everybody looked at me like I was crazy. There were a couple of writers around, and they wrote that, and it stayed with me.

When we write, we complement each other. We wrote six songs, Barry and I, while Robin was ill during the American tour, and they were terrible until Robin came back, and then everything worked out.

The biggest thing for me when I got to L.A. was everybody wrote us off to make the playoffs. That was one of my goals. Put that on my mirror. We did it as a team. And that's my thing: Wherever I go, I'm going to win.

I wrote for this sketch group called Olde English for about six years and we made a movie together, but we sort of stopped making sketches.

But mostly, I wrote songs and Viv wrote songs.

Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination.

No WWE talent becomes a legend on their own.

None of us are bigger than the WWE. It will always continue to go on, and I will always be a part of it.