Quotes About Teamwork

However well these mild-mannered intellects do on the tests, lack of air time unfairly implies that they are not suited to the rough-and-tumble world of big business. On the contrary, they may be brilliantly equipped to quietly outmaneuver a bombastic opponent, yet as a result of the air time yardstick, they may lose out to peers who tend to be openly aggressive, individualistic, and terror-tested, yet underexposed to teamwork, ego control, soft tactics, and compromise.

Manus manum lavat.

Hazel, watching, lent help here and there and encouraged the others.

In terms of the analogy, suppose an ideally balanced crew would consist of four right-handers and four left-handers. Once again assume that the coach, unaware of this fact, selects blindly on 'merit'. Now if the pool of candidates happens to be dominated by right-handers, any individual left-hander will tend to be at an advantage: he is likely to cause any boat in which he finds himself to win, and he will therefore appear to be a good oarsman.

If you don't know the men at your back by name, don't be surprised if they won't follow you into battle. On the other hand, don't be surprised if they will, either, because there are countless other factors you must take into account. Leadership is a slippery commodity, not easily manufactured or understood.

their partnership greater than the sum of its parts.

but boys who like the tough sports—boys who are virtually nursed on that potion of hustle, slam, and grunt—they're the ones with the best chance in life.

Team, aren't we? That means we trust each other, no matter what. Watch each other's back. Keep an eye out for trouble.

If you can't take a joke, you shouldn't have joined.

In this job, you handpick your people. You need the best. You need the most loyal. You need the most ruthless.

It was funny because she thought of herself as a good team player, although sometimes she suspected that no one else on her team did.

Fit men walking around and bathing, it would be just like being in Ancient Rome [on a footballers dressing room

With my team I am an absolute czar. My men know it. I order plays and they obey. If the don't, I fine them.

It's one thing to tell a front man to drop off and fill in the hole behind, but if they don't know why they are doing it, it is not an easy thing to teach. But Rooney's just got it.

I would rather play with 10 men than wait for a player who is late for the bus.

A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes.

There's been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that's simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we've won when I score 10.

The Super Bowl is like a movie, and the quarterback is the leading man.

I hate being out there with those garbage men. They don't get you the ball.

I see my role in the Bonzos as being the straight man, in many ways.

I have no idea why it apparently takes three grown men to cook some hamburgers. One to cook, one to kibbitz, and one to insult the other two.

If there's a man on second, I'm trying to get him in with a base hit. The doubles and homers will come. Sooner or later they'll go out naturally. I'm just trying not to do too much.

If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.

The difference between working with a man and a woman... is immense.