Quotes About Teamwork

A closing team is so important in the NBA. The last seven minutes is what you are always coaching to get to. Now you have your team set, you have the match-ups you want, you have your time-outs, your chance to finish the game, and that's my job, to get us to that position during the course of the game.

Filmmaking is a miracle of collaboration.

I don't think I was a miracle man. Neither were Lou Holtz or Frank Leahy. We all found ways to win.

I look in the mirror, and I work with the brightest person I know.

As players, whenever the manager gets the sack, you have to look in the mirror and say it's not always the manager. It's down to the players.

I'm never going to question myself or question the guys around me. We're just going to look at each other and we're going to look in the mirror and I'm going to tell myself and everybody that we have to get better, I have to get better.

A game director, in my mind, is somebody who makes everybody on the team miserable for the duration of the project.

The club is always bigger than the individual, and employers can make a player's life miserable if they want.

I miss being the focal point of the team - the guy everyone looks to for decisions. And guidance.

I won't miss coaching. What you miss is that camaraderie with those boys and the other coaches. You miss that.

Sometimes I miss coaching, but often things are not how they appear in football.

Would I have been a great basketball player? No. But I think I would've been a good basketball player, one of those grinders getting eight to 10 rebounds. I would've been like Kobe and been in the gym five to seven hours a day and never missed a 10-foot jump shot. I would've been a great role player for a team.

You can get caught up in making and missing shots, but the game is so much more.

When I played in the Benfica youth teams, they would always call me to play in midfield if someone was missing and I didn't ever embarrass myself.

Sometimes one of us might be missing because we might be away or something, but there's always four or five.

We didn't lose a game at home for two years. What are we missing? We have the product on the field. We're exciting.

Seeing someone go down, you don't ever want to see anyone getting carried off on a stretcher or you don't want to see anyone missing a day or another game.

Something like missing a shot, and the next play you're thinking about it, or you give up a play on defense and you're thinking about it, you're frustrated about it, what's happening is that you're really thinking about yourself. You're not connected to the team. And you have to be connected, or those few plays add up.

On any high-performing team I've been a part of, putting mission first, and team before self, was always key to collective success.

I never had any question about the direction we were going in at the Girl Scouts. We shared our mission and research with all levels of leaders from the very beginning - a concept I created, using cups and saucers, called 'circular management.' Everyone was on a team; there were no superiors or subordinates. There was respect for all people.

Something I learned in the Marine Corps that I've applied to acting is, one, taking direction, and then working with a group of people to accomplish a mission and knowing your role within that team.

I can't think of anything that's as exciting as I'm sure this mission will be, and actually being in space. But, we did some training as a crew together.

Finn doesn't have as much respect for Han's legacy as everybody else does, and Han finds that a bit charming. They team up and go on a mission together. The banter is very choppy, and the dialogue is pretty funny. Chewie enjoys the banter and the friction between the two, but they definitely have each other's backs.

In the military, the bottom line has to be the success of the mission.