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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.
Sep 17, 2025
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
It takes two flints to make a fire.
A list is only as strong as its weakest link.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
What is love? Love is playing every game as if it's your last!
No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.
For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.
When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.
When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.
The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.
There's a tipping point that happens with soccer in which you just kinda get it. I was drawn to it because the best soccer teams play similarly to my favorite basketball teams - like the eighties Lakers or eighties Celtics - teams that emphasized teamwork over individualism and relied on passing as their biggest ongoing edge.
Winning teams at the NBA level, the college level, and the high school level all play team basketball. Championship teams have five players on the same page at all times.
Teams that play together beat those with superior players who play more as individuals.
If you quit ONCE it becomes a habit.Never quit!!!
I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.
When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.
Teamwork doesn't come naturally. It must be taught.
Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.
The secret of winning is working more as a team, less as individuals.
The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.
My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen. I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.
Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.
Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.
If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
One man cannot make a team.
Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.
May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.
To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.
If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.