Quotes About Teamwork

Jim Graham] had been a linebacker at Penn State, and was seriously old-school. I mean, really old-school; like he thought the forward pass was a trick play.

When we send our kids to play organized sports—football, soccer, swimming, whatever—for most of us, it's not because we're desperate for them to learn the intricacies of the sport. What we really want them to learn is far more important: teamwork, perseverance, sportsmanship, the value of hard work, an ability to deal with adversity. This kind of indirect learning is what some of us like to call a "head fake." There

Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way.

You're only as good as the people you hire.

None of us is as good as all of us

After we got McDonald's going and built a larger staff, they all called her "Mother Martino." She kept track of everyone's family fortunes, whose wife was having a baby, who was having marital difficulties, or whose birthday it was. She helped make the office a happy place. It

No one of us is more important than the rest of us

I think every time I go in a game, I have added something positive. I have gotten a rebound or made a defensive play. That is what I try to focus on.

I've always just given myself to the band, if you know what I mean, and been busy with that.

What makes Butler truly unique is the people that we have been so blessed to work with.

There are teams spending a lot of money and buying top players from all over the world but it is not about money - it is about your team-mates.

Having been around, I know how difficult it is to get results in this league. It doesn't just happen by buying players. It needs a lot of hard work.

I still get a great buzz from rugby.

You can tell a lot about a person by the people who work for them.

There are no bad seats at the cabinet table.

Like yes, I was part of a launch of an entire cable television network and we all worked so hard getting prepared for it and rehearsed so many times.

You want to have a good cake? Get two engineers to build it.

It's always nice to have more than just two hands if you're making cakes.

Buffalo Springfield had three guitar players, and we thought they were so cool. So we started doing the three-guitar thing, and people started calling us the 'guitar army' and all this stuff.

Whatever the coach calls, I'm going to give 110 percent.

I play American football every Saturday, which I find calming.

If I can add a bit of a calming influence on the guys, then I'll certainly try to.

The camaraderie between the athletes is a joy to behold sometimes, because they all help each other along.

There was real camaraderie in Girls Aloud, the feeling of one for all, and all for one.