Quotes About Teamwork

I feel I should defer to the writers and the directors because they're the ones who have the complete vision. They see things through from the beginning to the end. I'm responsible for one small part, so my scope is much more limited than theirs.

I'm used to being a small part of a massive production.

In 'Tintin,' it's like a live-action role. You're living and breathing and making decisions for that character from page 1 to page 120, the whole emotional arc. In an animated movie, it's a committee decision. There are 50 people creating that character. You're responsible for a small part.

The astronaut corps is a very small part of a very large team that enables human spaceflight.

If the team is winning and we're playing really good - everybody is part of the team. Everybody is a small part.

All the small things matter. Communication. It doesn't matter what you are doing. You have to be on the same page.

When you are in a team sometimes you hear 'Blah, blah, blah' complaining all the time about small things.

There are small things that every coach brings when they go to a new team. Like, you need to press this way or the other way.

You've got to be able to go out there and do the small things. I went to Villanova, and I didn't start my freshman year until the last two games of the season. And I think that continuously not being 'The Man' helped me as an individual be able to say, 'Listen, what else do you need me to do?'

When approaching the small things, you have to know, 'If I do my job, it's going to make the job easier for everybody else.'

I come from a small town in Ohio and was always into sports.

I was never the star of my team, not even in my small town.

I think, bottom line, I have to be good enough to make the team. I have to bring something in and beat somebody else out, especially with a smaller roster for the Olympics.

Buffon may be a bit smaller, but he has everything that you want from a great goalkeeper. He relays his confidence to his defence, and they feel that they have a great keeper behind them. Everybody can make mistakes, but his consistency level is amazing. You never see him have a bad game.

You can't just go out and buy players and make a super team, because it's so hard to do that. The salary cap doesn't allow it. We have a much smaller salary cap than the NBA, and they only have 12 on a roster.

You want to be smart. You don't want to put yourself in a position where you can't be there for the team when it comes down to the end.

No company should depend on one person no matter how that person is smart or genius, whether it's Apple or News Corp, or Citibank or any other company in the world.

I am an actor but might not be smart enough to handle business, so it's always good to have intelligent people around who can look into other aspects of business.

I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.

I was just excited to have challenging work to do and smart people to work with.

I liked working with smart people.

I'm smart enough to know to work with smart people.

I've certainly seen R&D groups, typically funded by large corporations, where they bring together a lot of smart people and nothing happens. And the reason nothing happens is that they don't have a clear goal.

I just like working with smart people.