Quotes on Great Team

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

It takes two flints to make a fire.

On good teams coaches hold players accountable, on great teams players hold players accountable

Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.

It's better to have a great team than a team of greats.

In great teams, conflict becomes productive. The free flow of conflicting ideas is critical for creative thinking, for discovering new solutions no one individual would have come to on his own.

Great players and great teams want to be driven. They want to be pushed to the edge. They don't want to be cheated. Ordinary players and average teams want it to be easy

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.

In great teams conflict becomes productive.

No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.

A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.