Teamwork Quotations

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.

Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

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

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree.

Growing up in a group home, and with an undiagnosed learning disability to boot, the odds of success were not on my side. But when I joined the high school football team, I learned the value of discipline, focus, persistence, and teamwork - all skills that have proven vital to my career as a C.E.O. and social entrepreneur.

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.

A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.

When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.

We have a great sense of togetherness. It is our team spirit that has taken us to this World Cup.

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Teamwork is better than isolation, especially for a columnist.

I'm thrilled, I'm grateful, I'm blessed. I played for the world's greatest professional sports team in history. Once a Dallas Cowboy, always a Dallas Cowboy.

I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.

I'm not under too much of an illusion of how smart or un-smart I am because filmmaking ultimately is about teamwork.

We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.

I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

I invite everyone to chose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

This is definitely a playoff team. There's no question about that. It's just a matter of how much we want it.

Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don't quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don't quit until you reach it. Never quit.

You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand.

All coaching is, is taking a player where he can't take himself.

Creating a better world requires teamwork, partnerships, and collaboration, as we need an entire army of companies to work together to build a better world within the next few decades. This means corporations must embrace the benefits of cooperating with one another.

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.

There's a tipping point that happens with soccer in which you just kinda get it. I was drawn to it because the best soccer teams play similarly to my favorite basketball teams - like the eighties Lakers or eighties Celtics - teams that emphasized teamwork over individualism and relied on passing as their biggest ongoing edge.

If you respect the art and you have some talent about you, I'm on your team.

The Grateful Dead, they're my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creativity, imagination, celebration, the dance, the vision, the purpose, the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world.

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

In the United States, we spend millions of dollars on sports because it promotes teamwork, discipline, and the experience of learning to make great progress in small increments. Learning to play music does all this and more.

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.

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

Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.

My first year of pro ball I played in the Northwest league and made the all-star team, and the next year I played I led the team in hitting and was third or fifth in the league.

I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation.

I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.

If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.

We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.

The hardest problems of pure and applied science can only be solved by the open collaboration of the world-wide scientific community.

We did it together. Not one individual carried this team.

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

We held the team together for as long as possible and then sent all except the most critical personnel home.

The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.

Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third.

Well, unless you're Wayne Gretzky or Michael Jordan, you need the full support of your team.

When you start out in a team, you have to get the teamwork going and then you get something back.

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

We'll continue to expand our footprint... Oracle's Fusion cloud applications for HCM, CRM and ERP all have a new simplified user interface and an integrated social network that makes our enterprise applications as easy-to-use and familiar as Facebook, while enabling better collaboration and teamwork among your employees and your customers.

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.

The heart of Dragon's Lair has always been its compelling story. With Dragon's Lair 3D, we think the team has really created an interactive animated movie.

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.

Great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.

And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.

I am very happy to be signing for the best team in the world and especially proud to be the first Portuguese player to join United.

God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.

You never heard of a comedy team that didn't fight, did you?

Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward.

People respected my experience, they hire me, they pay me what I am worth to coach their team.

I wanna record these girls individually. And then, I wanna cut a blues album on me. But all of it, original stuff, you know. When I listen to the blues today, it's like they all sounds similar. I wanna do something different, to try to add to the blues flavor.

The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.

The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.

A list is only as strong as its weakest link.

The final effort came when our reconnaissance team reported contact with the POWs and their guards by radio near midnight at a pre-arranged crossing site.

A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done.

The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.

When I was put in a situation where I'm going there, you have to look at the team and the possibility that hey, we can probably do some good things over there.

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

However, we couldn't focus on the films much during the series because we're dumb. Individually we're smart guys, but together we're one big dumb guy, and couldn't concentrate on two things at once.

It takes two guys on a team to do very well in the end and be successful.

Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.

You can talk about teamwork on a baseball team, but I'll tell you, it takes teamwork when you have 2,900 men stationed on the U.S.S. Alabama in the South Pacific.

Don't go to the grave with life unused.

A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.

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

Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.

No one man is superior to the game.

I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.

As far as extra dimensions are concerned, very tiny extra dimensions wouldn't be perceived in everyday life, just as atoms aren't: we see many atoms together but we don't see atoms individually.

Most of all, we should remember all of us are capable of individually helping advance the spirit of equality for all.

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

Being in space, I'm really looking forward to working with this team of folks that I'm with.

As a father, I believe that involving children in sports at a young age is generally, a wise proposition. I believe that healthy competition is... well... healthy; that sporting events foster a spirit of teamwork that far surpasses the events themselves; and that active participation keeps children moving and is good for their self-esteem.

I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm and upbeat.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best.

No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.