Team Quotes - Page 102

When I made 'Hard Boiled,' I had no idea that it would be released to an international audience. I just wanted to make a film to team up my two favorite actors, Tony Leung and Chow Yun-Fat.

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

Do we settle on a regional team because we can go to its ballpark and see its games on television? Or do we choose a team as our favorite because it has an especially appealing player, a Barry Bonds or an Ichiro?

If you don't kick things around with people, you are out of it. Nobody, I always say, can be anybody without somebody being around.

With my team I am an absolute czar. My men know it. I order plays and they obey. If the don't, I fine them.

To his US Olympic team - Every day you guys look worse and worse. And today you played like tomorrow.

I think the Democratic Party realizes, having lost two presidential elections, we need to do a better job of creating a farm team.

An advantage to volleyball is that you have a scoreboard to tell how you have done as a team. The thing is, in life there is no scoreboard, at least not one that you can see.

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

A demanding performance challenge tends to create a team.

Fun is only real and sustainable if it feeds off the team's purpose and performance aspirations.

My job is to try to figure out how to fix things, and I'm going to fix things as best as I can. I'm going to get a team together to fix things. And I can't sit around and worrying what the heck the chairman of the Republican Party thinks about what I'm doing.

Education is critical not only to each one of us individually, but also to build the economic vitality of our state.

John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald meet in hell and team up to assassinate Satan.

I'm a good person but a shitty writer. You're a shitty person but a good writer. We'd make a good team.

If one student is unable to get online, it cripples that student's team and puts the whole course in jeopardy.

If my team won a national title and no one got drafted, I'd be disappointed.

Values hold the team together, provide stability for the team to grow upon, measure the team's performance, give direction and guidance and attract like-minded people.

Your teammates will stretch your vision or choke your dream.

Personnel determines the potential of the team. Vision determines the direction of the team. Work ethic determines the preparation of the team. Leadership determines the success of the team.

The bottom line in managing your emotions is that you should put others – not yourself – first in how you handle and process them. Whether you delay or display your emotions should not be for your own gratification. You should ask yourself, What does the team need? Not, What will make me feel better?

Coming together is a beginning, and staying together is progress, but only when teams sweat together do they find success.

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

The smartest person in the room is never as smart as all the people in the room.

If you don't hold your team accountable then you will lose credibility and your team will be spoiled.