Quotes on Team

Trust is the foundation of real teamwork. And so the first dysfunction is a failure on the part of team members to understand and open up to one another. And if that sounds touchy-feely, let me explain, because there is nothing soft about it. It is an absolutely critical part of building a team. In fact, it’s probably the most critical.

I am a believer in passing the ball on the ground, I was lucky to be part of teams like that at Arsenal, with the French national team and with Monaco and at Barcelona. I know you can win in other ways, but I believe that is the way football should be played.

Losers assemble in small groups & complain, winners assemble as a team & find ways to win.

My first act after being named head coach of the Bulls was to formulate a vision for the team. I had to take into account not only what I wanted to achieve, but how I was going to get there.

Teamwork does not come naturally. Let's face it. We are born with certain inclinations, but sharing isn't one of them.

A competitor continually sets new goals. He feels the need to keep raising the bar. If the fist goal is to make the team, and he achieves it, he immediately resets the goal to: I want to be a starter.

Trying to build a team over the course of the winter to put on the field is really just half the job. Because if your best players go down, it's not so much him going down as who you replace him with, which ultimately might have the biggest impact on how you end up finishing. So you want to have both a belt and suspenders for support.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger.

It's about us getting ready to play. It's not about the other team. We'll beat ourselves before they beat us. That's always our approach.

There are teams that wait for you and teams that look for you: Espanyol look for you. I feel very close to their style of football.

One of the greatest joys of leadership is assembling and knitting together teams of fantastic people.

I have the greatest job in the world. Only one person can have it. You have shortstops on other teams - I'm not knocking other teams - but there's only one shortstop on the Yankees.

In our experience, what we have found is the rare commodity is a good management team. And good management teams manage through good and bad cycles and manage to grow their business over a long period of time.

If we are a good team and know what we want to do, one of us can defeat tons of them.

How you deal with adversity says a lot about the kind of players you've got and the kind of team we've got.

It is an art in itself to compose a starting team, finding the balance between creative players and those with destructive powers, and between defence, construction and attack – never forgetting the quality of the opposition and the specific pressures of each match.

When I do retire, I will miss the trips with the team, the jokes with my teammates, the habits: having breakfast with them, playing with them, all the little things.

If you're not working to get your business or investing operation to operate without you, you're thinking too small. Think team and systems.

In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team.

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.