Teamwork Quotes - Page 4

Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.

Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.

The key to teamwork is to learn a role, accept a role, and strive to become excellent playing it.

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

I think jazz is a beautiful, democratic music. It encourages musicians with very strong, and many times, very different points of view to work together as a team while, at the same time, giving them the space to express their individuality. It's a very important art form and can be used as a model for different cultures to work together.

A single leaf working alone provides no shade.

A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

I worry about America. For the first time in my lifetime, I'm worried about us, i'm worried about how our values to some degree have been eroded, of personal responsibility and compassion and teamwork. I worry about it, I worry about the fact that we're so divided.

The old lessons (work, self-discipline, sacrifice, teamwork, fighting to achieve) aren't being taught by many people other than football coaches these days. The football coach has a captive audience and can teach these lessons because the communication lines between himself and his players are more wide open than between kids and parents. We better teach these lessons or else the country's future population will be made up of a majority of crooks, drug addicts, or people on relief.

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

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Synergy does not mean giving up what we want. It means joining to co-create so each is able to receive ever more of what attracts us through joining rather than opposing.

You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, ackowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins.

The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy.

Jazz is really about the human experience. It’s about the ability of human beings to take the worst of circumstances and struggles and turn it into something creative and constructive. That’s something that’s built into the fiber of every human being. And I think that’s why people can respond to it. They feel the freedom in it. And the attributes of jazz are also admirable. It’s about dialogue. It’s about sharing. And teamwork. It’s in the moment, and it's nonjudgmental.

The era of the rugged individual is giving way to the era of the team player.

Play for the name on the front of the shirt, and they will remember the name on the back

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

Members of trusting teams accept questions and input about their areas or responsibility, appreciate and tap into one another's skills and experiences, and look forward to meetings and other opportunities to work as a group.

Teamwork does not come naturally. Let's face it. We are born with certain inclinations, but sharing isn't one of them.

If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless.

I can't tell you how much you gain, how much progress you can make, by working together as a team, by helping one another. You get much more done that way. If there's anything the Steelers of the '70s epitomized, I think it was that teamwork.

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

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?