#Teamwork Quotes

“There is at least one thing worse than fighting with allies - And that is to fight without them”

“The Golcondas were considered incomparably the best team in Southern India ... [But] we defeated [them] by 9 goals to 3. On succeeding days we made short work of all other opponents, and established the record, never since broken, of winning a first-class tournament within fifty days of landing in India.”

“Individuals score points, but teams win games.”

“You don't build a business --you build people-- and then people build the business.”

“If we are together nothing is impossible. If we are divided all will fail.”

“Successful people use their strength by recognizing, developing, and utilizing the talents of others.”

“Even a two-car parade gets fouled up if you don't decide ahead of time who's going to lead.”

“You stand up for your teammates. Your loyalty is to them. You protect them through good and bad, because they'd do the same for you.”

“No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.”

“If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary.”

“When management and labor (employer and employee) both understand they are all on the same side, then each will prosper more.”

“If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.”

“A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings home full numbers.”

“We are plunged in a long and grievous struggle. But all will come right if we all work together to the end.”

“We feel fortunate [with Canada hockey team]. We have got a lot of guys who love to play, but they also love to win even more. We are pretty happy. Although we are young, we like our group of players.”

“You'll never catch me bragging about goals, but I'll talk all you want about my assists.”

“I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me, whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal in a hockey game.”

“What you want to do with your best players is, it doesn't matter how many goals and assists they get, but when they get goals and assists. The best players get them at the most important times, and that's when we need those guys to come through.”

“When you're playing an exhibition, you're kind of letting everyone get an opportunity.”

“It doesn't matter what I think. It doesn't matter what other people think. You have to get on the ice and participate and play and the best team wins.”

“As a player, you have one responsibility, to focus yourself and be ready for the game. As a coach, your responsibility is to get 20 guys ready and have them all on the same page. If you can't get every guy ready every night, you're going to struggle.”

“I think the Americans are ready to play, they want to beat us. I think that players like Chris Chelios and his leadership over there goes a long way.”

“Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.”

“I get a feeling about where a teammate is going to be. A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.”

“The best players in the game want the responsibility of being the best player. The reality is the game has changed from now back to '87. It's a lot tighter checking. The players are better today. So, that makes it harder for him just in that fact. We can't rely solely on Mario [Lemieux] to carry this team. We're not relying on that.”

“You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.”

“Whatever we accomplish is due to the combined effort.”

“The ideal set-up would be the story man, the director, and the layout man, as well as musician, operating as a sort of story unit. They all should be keenly interested in the picture. No one in person should donate to an extent where he would keep the others from entering into the production and freely expressing themselves.”

“Everyone has to contribute, or they become laborers.”

“It seems to me shallow and arrogant for any man in these times to claim he is completely self-made, that he owes all his success to his own unaided efforts. Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone's notable achievements.”

“You know, the only way I've found to make these pictures is with animators. You can't seem to do it with accountants and bookkeepers.”

“Togetherness, for me, means teamwork. It makes us reflect how completely dependent we are upon one another in our social and commercial life. The more diversified our labors and interests have become in the modern world, the more surely need to integrate our efforts to justify our individual selves and our civilization.”

“I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator; I have always had men working for me whose skills were greater than my own. I am an idea man.”

“Togetherness, for me, means teamwork. In my business of motion pictures and television entertainment, many minds and skillful hands must collaborate...T he work seeks to comprehend the spiritual and material needs and yearnings of gregarious humanity. It makes us reflect how completely dependent we are upon one another in our social and commercial life.”

“I don't pose as an authority on anything at all, I follow the opinions of the ordinary people I meet, and I take pride in the close-knit teamwork with my organization.”

“Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone's notable achievements.”

“I'm not the perfectionist anymore. It's my staff. They're the ones always insisting on doing something better and better.”

“When we opened Disneyland, a lot of people got the impressions that it was a get-rich-quick thing, but they didn't realize that behind Disneyland was this great organization that I built here at the Studio, and they all got into it and we were doing it because we loved to do it.”

“Sometimes I think of myself as a little bee. I go from one area of the studio to another and gather pollen and sort of stimulate everybody. I guess that’s the job I do.”

“No one person can take credit for the success of a motion picture. It's strictly a team effort. From the time the story is written to the time the final release print comes off the printer, hundreds of people are involved - each one doing a job - each job contributing to the final product.”

“We win our games in practice. We learn and follow the fundamentals of our game better than anyone in the league. All of our games are won in practice.”

“Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.”

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

“When you travel with the team and you eat with the team - you eat what the team eats.”

“To me, the big thing in being a successful team is repetition of what you're doing, either by word of mouth, blackboard, or specifically by work on the field. You repeat, repeat, repeat as a unit.”

“I don't necessarily have to like my players and associates but as their leader I must love them. Love is loyalty, love is teamwork, love respects the dignity of the individual. This is the strength of any organization.”

“The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.”

“I call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state; up and help us; lay your shoulders to the wheel; better have too much force than too little, when so great an object is at stake.”

“The only true satisfaction a player receives is the satisfaction that comes from being part of a successful team, regardless of his personal accomplishments.”

“In order to succeed, this group will need a singleness of purpose, they will need a dedication, and they will have to convince all of their prospects of the willingness to sacrifice.”