Team Quotes - Page 5

• The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.

  Wendell Pierce

  Sports, Community, Indescribable

  "Wendell Pierce Goes to Market". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. February 2012.

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• The same dynamics that promote performance also support learning and behavioral change.

  John Katzenbach

  Teamwork, Support, Team Building

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• We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.

  Charlton Ogburn

  Teamwork, Later In Life, Creating

  "Merrill's Marauders: The truth about an incredible adventure" by Charlton Ogburn, harpers.org. January 1957.

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• What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Teamwork, Mean, Learning

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• Effective teamwork will not take the place of knowing how to do the job or how to manage the work. Poor teamwork, however, can prevent effective final performance. And it can also prevent team members from gaining satisfaction in being a member of a team and the organization.

  Robert Bales

  Teamwork, Jobs, Organization

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• Team members who feel threatened but who are not aware of it become rigid - and that stops teamwork.

  William Schutz

  Teamwork, Team Building, Team Work

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• Work and self-worth are the two factors in pride that interact with each other and that tend to increase the strong sense of pride found in superior work teams. When people do something of obvious worth, they feel a strong sense of personal worth.

  Dennis F. Kinlaw

  Teamwork, Strong, Educational

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• One man cannot make a team.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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• Synergism is the simultaneous actions of separate entities which together have greater total effect than the sum of their individual effects.

  Clay Buchholz

  Teamwork, Team Building, Team Work

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• Light is the task where many share the toil.

  Homer

  Teamwork, Light, Team Building

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  The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.71, Thomas Nelson

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• Teamplayer: Once who unites others toward a shared destiny through sharing information and ideas, empowering others and developing trust.

  Dennis F. Kinlaw

  Teamwork, Destiny, Ideas

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

  Lee Iacocca

  Teamwork, People, Team Building

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.61, Bantam

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• All I can do is go out there and play hard and try and help my team win, and that's what I'm going to keep doing.

  Brian Urlacher

  Winning, Play Hard, Trying

  "His Game Says It All" by Melissa Isaacson, articles.chicagotribune.com. October 30, 2006.

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• The team that makes the most mistakes usually wins.

  Ward Lambert

  Mistake, Winning, Growth

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• I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

  Tom Landry

  Motivational, Leadership, Teamwork

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• Everybody likes each other until things get tough. Then you will find out what kind of team you have.

  Doc Rivers

  Likes, Tough, Kind

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

  John Wooden

  Leadership, Basketball, Teamwork

  John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.63, B&H Publishing Group

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• You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

  Robert Crandall

  Teamwork, Business, Player

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• On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

  Lou Holtz

  Teamwork, Jobs, Nfl

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• And when the pressure was on us, the team handled it very well. One has to learn to play well under pressure.

  Imran Khan

  Sports, Play, Pressure

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• A chance, as a coach, to take a team to the World Cup finals is probably as high up the tree as it gets, certainly with one-day cricket.

  Andy Pick

  Tree, One Day, Finals

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• A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Teamwork, Moving

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

  Pat Riley

  Teamwork, Effort, Decision

  Pat Riley (1993). “Winner Within Success”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.

  Vince Lombardi

  Teamwork, Business, Inspirational Football

  Vince Lombardi, Jr. (2012). “What It Takes to Be Number One”, p.60, Thomas Nelson Inc

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