"When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort--it is ready to climb."
-- Pat Riley
"The challenge of every team is to build a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another because the question is usually not how well each person performs, but how well they work together."
-- Vince Lombardi
Remember the banana -- when it left the bunch, it got skinned.
"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is a success."
-- Henry Ford
"We must all hang together, else we shall all hang separately."
-- Benjamin Franklin
"If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team."
-- Bud Wilkinson
"It's not my job to look good. It's my job to make other people look good."
-- Wes Unseld
"Our goal is not to win. It's to play together and play hard. Then, winning takes care of itself."
-- Mike Krzyzewski
"The best method of overcoming obstacles is the team method."
-- General Colin Powell
Show respect for yourself and for your team by working hard and diligently practicing the skills that will give us a good team.
"Now this is the law of the jungle, as old and as true as the sky. The wolf that should keep it should prosper, but the wolf that should break it must die. For the strength of the pack is the wolf and the strength of the wolf is the pack."
-- Rudyard Kipling, 'The Jungle Book'
The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
"One finger can't lift a pebble."
-- Hopi Tribal saying
"Play hard. Play together. Have fun."
-- Tony Alfonso
Every time you put on a team jersey, make sure you play for the name on the front rather than the one on the back.
"Through any kind of weather,
What if the sky should fall,
Just as long s we're together,
Doesn't matter much at all."
-- Just As Long As We're Together
"Quality is everyone's responsibility."
-- W. Edwards Deming
"Effortlessly learning how to say, 'Good job my friend', certainly benefits he or she we say this to. As importantly, this takes the focus off of self and places it precisely where it should be. Encouragement is a win-win proposition!"
-- Brian G. Jett
When there's no getting over that rainbow; when my smallest of dreams won't come true. I can take all the madness the world has to give, but I won't last a day without you!
"All work is done by teams. Your success is largely determined by your team's success."
-- Brian Tracy
"One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team."
-- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
"Teamwork is the long word for success."
-- Jacquelinemae A. Rudd
“The secret of winning football games is working more as a team, less as individuals. I play not my 11 best, but my best 11.”
-- Knute Rockne
"Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."
-- Vince Lombardi
"Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishment toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results."
-- Andrew Carnegie
"When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality."
-- Joe Paterno
"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."
-- Babe Ruth
"No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it."
-- H.E. Luccock
"People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them."
-- Dr. Allan Fromme
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team."
-- Lee A. Iacocca
"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."
-- Peter Drucker
"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."
-- Helen Keller
"Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story."
-- Casey Stengel
"Many of us are more capable than some of us... but none of us is as capable as all of us!"
-- Tom Wilson
"The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual."
-- Vince Lombardi
"The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side."
-- Margaret Carty
"A successful team is a group of many hands but of one mind."
-- Bill Bethel
"I was taught that the name on the front of your jersey was a lot more important than the name on the back."
-- Ryne Sandberg
"Individuals play the game, but teams beat the odds."
-- Navy SEAL Team Saying
"Competing is hard work. Collaboration -- racing your own race, together -- can feel like flying."
-- Robert K. Cooper
"In order to become a leading home run hitter, a batter must be surrounded by good hitters, otherwise, the pitchers will 'pitch around' him. Likewise, many successful people became that way from being on a good team."
-- Laing Burns Jr.
"Teams work better - when they work together."
-- Alice Vernon
"It's easy to figure out who isn't a team player. They'll constantly remind the coach just how good they are."
-- Brian G. Jett
"All the successful teams I've ever seen have three characteristics. They play unselfish, they play together, and they play hard."
-- Larry Brown
"Blending the talents of your team members is crucial to basketball success."
-- John Kundla
"Individuals don't win. Teams do."
-- Sam Walton
"Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together."
-- Vesta Kelly
"Hard work and togetherness. They go hand in hand. You need the hard work because it's such a tough atmosphere ... to win week in and week out. You need togetherness because you don't always win, and you gotta hang though together."
-- Tony Dungy
"The greatest emphasis should be made from the very beginning on the importance of team play. A team that plays harmoniously will be stronger that a team composed of brilliant individual players who are each eager to do all the playing."
-- Senda Berenson
"Learning the value of team play is to learn one of life's lessons."
-- H.C. "Doc" Carlson
"When it comes to team dynamics -- on a basketball court or in a corporate setting -- maintaining a positive atmosphere is crucial."
-- Rick Pitino, from 'Rebound Rules: The Art of Success 2.0'
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