Team Building Quotes

We have not come to compete with one another. We have come to complete one another.

The freedom to do your own thing ends when you have obligations and responsibilities. If you want to fail yourself - you can - but you cannot do your own thing if you have responsibilities to team members.

A leader who produces other leaders multiples their influences.

When I was 14, I was the oldest I ever was. I've been getting younger ever since.

No man is wise enough by himself.

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.

Real teams don't emerge unless individuals on them take risks involving conflict, trust, interdependence and hard work.

Basketball, more than any other sport, is a team game...about the thousands of small, unselfish acts, the sacrifices on the part of the players that result in team building.

It's just really hard to work and get better, building and planning for the future with the new Monte Carlo and keeping the race team intact and keeping them healthy.

Good luck needs no explanation.

To me, teamwork is a lot like being part of a family. It comes with obligations, entanglements, headaches, and quarrels. But the rewards are worth the cost.

When somebody shares, everybody wins.

A team is not a group of people that work together. A team is a group of people that trust each other.

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

Why should I clutter my mind with general information when I have men around me who can supply any knowledge I need?

Chemistry is a contribution that teammates make to each other, but it's also something a coach can create or facilitate.

I'm 31 years old and I want to be part of a championship team before my career is over.

The Washington Bullets are changing their name. They don't want their team to be associated with crime. From now on, they'll just be known as the Bullets.

The rider and the team need to understand one another and work in the same direction. Then the rider's happy, and only then will the rider be able to give 100%.

Their argument, and I think it's a correct one, is that they'll make more money from the trades and the hardcovers if nobody messes with the creative team.

Marriage is a team effort. Both of us share that philosophy.

Certain people who care about me a lot have said 'You don't play the game, and if you don't play the game, you don't get picked for the team all the time.

It's not pleasant when you lose your whole football team.

A Germany team should not be afraid going into a tournament. History shows that we can raise the level of our game when it matters.

I don't care how I got here. In the books, when you look at it 10 or 20 years from now, it's not going say how he got here, it's going to say he's here and he represented the team.

We had built up a team in Edmonton that really knew who each other was from a personal standpoint and from a professional standpoint. Our nucleus had stayed together for a long time.

The SSRC committee turned attention from team research for building a model of the United States to doing one for world trade in order to investigate the international transmission mechanism.

Do you want a collection of brilliant minds or a brilliant collection of minds?

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Bringing together disparate personalities to form a team is like a jigsaw puzzle. You have to ask yourself: what is the whole picture here? We want to make sure our players all fit together properly and complement each other, so that we don't have a big piece, a little piece, an oblong piece, and a round piece. If personalities work against each other, as a team you'll find yourselves spinning your wheels.

It's always hard - if you're not the best player on your team, how can you be the best player in college?

It's not about rugby, it's about young men. It's not about building a championship team, it's about building championship boys. Boys who will be forever strong.

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

Teamwork represents a set of values that encourage behaviors such as listening and constructively responding to points of view expressed by others, giving others the benefit of the doubt, providing support to those who need it, and recognizing the interests and achievements of others.

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork.

I wasn't ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff.

If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day.

Protecting underperformers always backfires.

We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.

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

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.

Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger.

The team you belong to must come ahead of the team you lead: this is putting team results (e.g., organizational needs) ahead of individual agendas (e.g., the team or division you lead, your ego, your need for recognition, your career development, etc.) Confidentiality is respected downward more than it is respected upward. Organizational alignment is a direct result of this hierarchy (if it were the other way around, organizational alignment would be very difficult to achieve).

Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.

The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue.

To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.

The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals.

None of the things I have done would have been accomplished without a true team effort.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

I think there are definitely two types of student: the academic kids and the 50% who fail. It's very clear to see - it's fact. We're not doing enough for those who fail; they need a more physical, tactile approach, involving people skills, team-building, problem-solving, building things.