Team Quotes

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Encourage members of your team to take the initiative and act on their own.

Mike Krzyzewski

Everything you do matters because your team is watching... and depending on you to do the right thing.

It does at first appear that an astronomer rapt in abstraction, while he gazes on a star, must feel more exquisite delight than a farmer who is conducting his team.

Isaac D'Israeli

Like a good marriage, trust on a team is never complete; it must be maintained over time.

Patrick Lencioni

We become male automatically because of the Y chromosome and the little magic peanut, but if we are to become men we need the helpof other men--we need our fathers to model for us and then to anoint us, we need our buddies to share the coming-of-age rituals with us and to let us join the team of men, and we need myths of heroes to inspire us and to show us the way.

American working men are principals in the three-member team of capital, management, labor. Never have they regarded themselves as a servile class that could attain freedom only through destruction of the industrial economy.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I think it's a unique statement about Apple's values in product development that it is taken as a given among everyone on the team that we will go to the most absurd lengths seemingly to get something just right, to solve, to do the level of architecture work that normally would constitute the most critical element of a product.

Craig Federighi

In selecting cadres, particularly team leaders, it is necessity to propound'the democratic spirit, take the mass line, refrain from listening, believing, liking or detesting any one side or blindly trusting one's own special views. There must be a healthy system to govern the appointment and dismissal of cadres so that the populace have the power to elect and dismiss the personnel serving them.

After he was ruled out of the rest of the 2014 World Cup with a broken vertebra:

My dream isn't over. I'm certain that my team-mates will do everything possible so that my dream, which is to be a champion, comes true. My dream was also to play in a World Cup final but this time it didn't work out. I am sure they will win this cup and be champions, and I will be with them, and all Brazilians will soon be celebrating all of that.

A goal is a moment of pure happiness, of satisfaction. But helping your team to win is the best of all.

When it comes to anything that's social, whether it's your family, your school, your community, your business or your country, winning is a team sport.

Complacency is the last hurdle standing between any team and its potential greatness.

In putting together your standards, remember that it is essential to involve your entire team. Standards are not rules issued by the boss; they are a collective identity. Remember, standards are the things that you do all the time and the things for which you hold one another accountable.

Mike Krzyzewski

Leaving wasn't a personal thing where I intentionally wanted to stick it to management or anyone. This is business. I felt I should have been rewarded for helping the Indians turn around a half century of losing. It was a shame they decided to treat me that way, after all I did for them. I helped this team go from one-hundred six losses to basically one-hundred six wins and into the World Series. And what do I get for it? Nothing.

On a team, trust is all about vulnerability, which is difficult for most people.

Patrick Lencioni

But I noted with real satisfaction how well ex-footballers seemed to have leadership qualifications... I believe that football, perhaps more than any other sport, tends to instill in men the feeling that victory comes through hard - almost slavish - work, team play, self-confidence, and an enthusiasm that amounts to dedication.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The more that people know how they fit on a team, the more they will desire to properly make the most of their fit and maximize their contribution.

John C. Maxwell

What I am proud of is I have searched for the best of me and I have been a team man without fail.

Jonny Wilkinson

We cannot win in team situations or in relationships by ourselves. It is like trying to pick up a pencil with only one finger...Even if that one finger is extremely strong, it will prove almost impossible to pick up that pencil unless you use your other fingers or some other part of your hand. Teamwork is a bit like using all of your fingers. Each one is unique and contributes something different, but they unite in pursuit of a common goal.

During the season, your team should be led with exuberance and excitement. You should live the journey. You should live it right. You should live it together. You should live it shared. You should try to make one another better. You should get on one another if somebody's not doing their part. You should hug one another when they are. You should be disappointed in a loss and exhilarated in a win. It's all about the journey.

Mike Krzyzewski

Anyone who loves his opinions more than his teammates will advance his opinions but set back his team.

John C. Maxwell

You try to make your team do something they're not capable of and you get murdered.

What makes this mentality dangerous is that when the team is held together by careerism and mindless partisanship, individual members are punished for thinking for themselves.

It's full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac some day, and you have to keep making believe you give a damn if the football team loses, and all you do is talk about girls and liquor and sex all day, and everybody sticks together in these dirty little goddam cliques.

It's not easy to deal with the negativity in the world but it's something that's got to be done. Your success and life are so important that you must surround yourself with a positive support team.