Quotes About Teamwork

My female writers have always been my backbone. I had a writing room of six women for five years so I know what women do. Cultivated by me, by the way!

I love collaborating with strong women.

What's so great about working with really funny women is that vanity comes second. Whatever makes it real and funny, they're going to go for, and it's just great.

I have a well-balanced show. It's 50/50 on men/women, and also African-American/white writers, it's the same thing. I have four African-American writers, and four non-African-American writers.

Behind every successful woman are people who bring out the best in her, encourage her and cheer her on!

Being able to block as a receiver, that was something I tried to make a point to the other receivers at Stanford, that you have to take that to a huge level of importance.

Let me tell you about 'Mad Dog' Madsen. He was like the Soccer Dad of the Stanford Men's Basketball Team.

As the founding lead of the Google Brain team, former director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and now overall lead of Baidu's AI team of some 1,200 people, I've been privileged to nurture many of the world's leading AI groups and have built many AI products that are used by hundreds of millions of people.

I've had a lot of coaches at my high school and at Stanford and in the NBA who helped me. Bill Cartwright comes to mind.

The most important thing for us is winning the Stanley Cup and I want to win.

I played to the best of my ability. Played to win and was fortunate enough to have won a Stanley Cup and a couple gold medals and played on some really good teams... I'm not going to look back and say I wish I could have done this or that.

I love the Stanley Cup playoffs.

To win the Stanley Cup is such a process and it takes everybody on board.

That's what they hired me to do in Washington, change a little bit of the culture, try to win a Stanley Cup.

We've got lots of time. We're not winning the Stanley Cup in the first exhibition game.

A band is sort of like a star. It reaches a peak and burns out. To have five guys working in perfect harmony longer than a couple years is difficult.

People think if you're a movie star, you're the boss. But first of all, I'm not a movie star, I'm in a very different place. I'm not looking to do what I want - I am looking for what we can find. It's a creative process.

In order to be a star performer you have to have someone to play against.

When I first met Salman Butt, he was a senior player, and he was a star for Pakistan, and I was a junior, but he had a very good image amongst the juniors. It wasn't that he was only nice to me: he was close to all the juniors, cracking jokes and socialising with them and being pleasant to them.

I haven't had the egomaniac star yet in any of my films. It's always been a pleasure.

Sometimes when you stare adversity in the face you've got to go back to those basic principles of football and do them right.

I like being out front, doing what I do, but then I also like playing in a band too. I'd like to do stuff like I did with Deee-lite. I went out and played with them and they were the stars, that was cool.

I often compare putting a hotel together to old-time movie production. You come up with a story line, you hire the writer, the director, the stars, the set designer.

An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster.