Quotes About Teamwork

I have two or three guys that I'm really close to. We have a great friendship, and I think that helps our songwriting relationship. It's hard to start... with new people and cover the ground that I've covered with those guys.

Sonic Youth has a very democratic process for the most part. It almost doesn't matter who brings in an initial idea; everything gets worked over by the band and kind of co-written by everyone in the end because everyone's ideas get contributed to it.

Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.

If analysis shows that someone's brilliant work fails again and again as soon as cooperation from others is required, it probably indicates a lack of courtesy - that is, a lack of manners.

As soon as I wear this badge, it's really important for myself to focus on England and nothing else.

It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.

Football is like recreation for me. I'd sooner be playing five-a-side than going out to eat or shopping.

All my players must be ready because, sooner or later, I will need them.

It's just like high school. If you're a freshman or a sophomore, it's hard to tell the seniors who've been through two, three, playoff games what to do.

I actually was the captain of the football team. I went to Catalina Foothills High School, and I played football all four years. I started on Varsity my sophomore year, and senior year I was captain.

When I was in high school, we won our state championship my sophomore year. We worked so hard that year because we had lost in the state championship the year before.

Oprah Winfrey gives you the stage? Shut your mouth. I said, 'I'm sorry for taking over your show.' She said, 'No, that's why we have you here.'

The kind of role I play is like an offensive lineman; doing a good job but not being noticed. I feel sorry for myself sometimes. But as long as the end result is there, I can dig it.

I'm going to be direct with the players. If they don't like it, then I'm sorry.

If you want to work as a head coach and to lead a group of people there is no option to feel sorry for yourself or to complain about fate conspiring against you.

So many times, when I would do a lot of retakes, I used to say sorry to my director and co-actors.

When you go though the door to the big league, your band is no longer your band. I wouldn't want anyone to feel sorry for us. We'd worked and we'd gone for it. We were pretty gung-ho. I liked our attitude.

I am the sort of player that likes to create goals. I think a lot of my team-mates know me as a player who is not selfish.

In my position when things are going well it's pretty easy to say that I'm sort of the guy that fixes everything. But if things are going bad then I'm the one that gets all the blame. In the end, we all do it together.

I've always looked on myself as one of a band and never sought a solo career.

It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo.

The best part of making music, for me, is collaborating and working with new people and fresh sounds and all those things that gets people excited to continue in this business that we all love so much.

As funny as it sounds, the best thing I got out of making a solo record was to realize how much I love being in a band.

When you're in a choir, it's about blending into how everyone else sounds.