Quotes About Teamwork

For me the important thing is I have four honest lads in front of me who give their everything.

Once you have the support of the lads around you, you can't ask for any more.

The lads I played football with on the street when I was a kid in Cardiff were as good as me, and in many ways, my career is due to them.

It's nice to see young lads doing well but when it's your mates you have grown up and played with it makes it even better.

I think as an older player, there's a kind of natural responsibility or natural role to go around the lads and say a few things. I had it when I came into the team; when you look to the older boys in certain situations to see what they say, see how they act, and see what they expect.

One thing the Scottish boys want in the changing room is the bragging rights over the English lads.

I want to be the kind of footballer who is willing to help out the young lads, even if it is only in a small way.

My wife's an Australian and a very competitive lady, and she wants to sail in Sydney-Hobart. I say, 'We have the boat, do as you wish.' I'll let her run the show.

I have never laid a brick in my life. But my people have laid more bricks than anybody else put together. Because I know how to pay.

Dennis Lindsey - if there's anyone who's most responsible for the winning culture in Salt Lake, it's him.

We get three of the Ball boys on the Lakers together, and we gonna go championship, championship, championship, championship, championship.

The Lakers have always been on the forefront and anywhere LeBron has been, has been on the forefront.

I think if all three of my boys get on the Lakers somehow, they would change the NBA.

Basketball, man: it is a land of giants.

My experience from working with people is that you can have a conversation with someone or have a meeting with a group of people, and from that meeting will derive an answer to a question that no individual could have ever thought of by him or herself.

Team members have to hold each other accountable. If there's a meeting, all members have to commit to be present and to help one another; they can't just check out when they feel they're not getting any benefits.

Every year, I speak to our new associates and give them this advice, although in my own words. 'This isn't like school,' I tell them, 'where you want to get your hand in the air and give an answer quickly. The only grade here is 100. Deadlines are important, but at Blackstone you can always get help in meeting them.'

It is important to have face-to-face meetings, so when the players have things on their mind we talk. It is important to have a good relationship with your players. If they like you and love you - and the other way around - you will be successful.

I can remember having meetings with my coaches when things were going bad. I told them, 'Hey, we've got to be positive. This is the time we need to step up. You've got to make sure they know everything is going to be okay. Keep teaching. Once they see you are down, you lose them and that can't happen.'

As to the differences between game work and novel writing, well, obviously the former is a lot less lonely - you're in and out of meetings all the time, bouncing stuff back and forth with the level designers, the art department, the animation team, so forth.

I can't tell you how many meetings I open up with, 'My voice is last.' I don't want anybody to hear my opinion before I hear everybody else's opinion.

I don't talk during production meetings, people don't generally say anything.

Melissa and I have the best working relationship, and we feel that Jack and Jennifer have so much more to do.

For 'Dynamite,' Max and Luke went to dinner and left me with a melody, and then I put it together.