Quotes About Teamwork

My goal is to play hard and give the city a chance for a championship.

I never really had a chance to know the players individually... I thought when they were on the floor, they worked hard. But I never really got to know them.

In going for the last shot of the game most people wait too long to take the shot. Give yourself a chance to get the first shot and tap the ball in. Your players are normally inside the defense.

I'm excited about the opportunity to go back out there with my teammates and get another chance at this thing [a Super Bowl].

When you have a chance to take the ball for the world champs, you take the ball.

It's a wonderful feeling that I get a chance to play with some of the best players in the world.

Effective teamwork begins and ends with communication

In many ways, effective communication begins with mutual respect, communication that inspires, encourages others to do their best.

Focusing on skills, communications, and community allows the project to be more effective and more agile than focusing on processes and plans.

The key to handling problems and conflict within an organization is to keep the channels of communication wide open.

Tarantino and Jackson is like Scorsese and DeNiro, and their silent communication.

Provided the development coordinator has a communications medium at least as good as the Internet and knows how to lead without coercion, many heads are inevitably better than one.

A small communication breakdown is enough for everyone to be working on slightly different things. And then you loose focus.

The kinds of errors that cause plane crashes are invariably errors of teamwork and communication.

Virtually every problem that would show up in your business can be traced back to communications; somebody didn't talk to somebody about something.

I like sets that feel small. Sets that feel really big are difficult. When you're on a big set it feels like there's constant mis-communication.

If we are to succeed we must communicate.

Leaders don't assume. Assumptions are the termites of leadership. Communicate, communicate, and communicate, until you connect.

It's better to wait for a productive programmer to become available than it is to wait for the first available programmer to become productive.

Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later

Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer.

Mathematicians stand on each others' shoulders and computer scientists stand on each others' toes.

I thought we were aggressive across the board defensively, and you could just see it grow. As the game went along, you could see the confidence grow. It showed in the fourth quarter.

I've always been supremely confident in my abilities. But the biggest confidence boost is when the guys around you, you feel like they have confidence in you.