180 Great Team Quotes

Following is our list of great team quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about great team work.

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Famous Great Team Quotes

Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We. — Phil Jackson

Being together on the field as a group, operating as a team, making important plays is a great thing. — Ellyse Perry

With an enthusiastic team you can achieve almost anything. — Tahir Shah

A great team relies on its leaders and they have to make a difference at key moments. — Kylian Mbappe

It's all about putting the best team together - not just in the front office but the players on the field. — John Elway

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

Winning as a team is better than anything. It's great to share success. — Jim Harbaugh

Our team, because of our depth and our talent, we were able to do that, and it turned into a special season as a result. — Steve Kerr

A team aligned behind a vision will move mountains — Kevin Rose

A good team is a great place to be, exciting, stimulating, supportive, successful. A bad team is horrible, a sort of human prison. — Charles Handy

Good teams incorporate teamwork into their culture, creating the building blocks for success. — Ted Sundquist

Teams that play together beat those with superior players who play more as individuals. — Jack Ramsay

We are a Team and we work hard together. We are all equal to each other. — Tim Peake

They talked about teamwork. That's all it is. It's about team effort. No particular player trying to outshine each other. Playing unselfishly and believe. Good things will come. — Rajon Rondo

The best teams have chemistry. They communicate with each other and they sacrifice personal glory for a common goal. — Dave DeBusschere

Short Great Team Quotes

  • Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. — Michael Jordan
  • TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon results. — Andrew Carnegie
  • The team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion. — Mia Hamm
  • The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy. — Jerry Tarkanian
  • Manchester United has done an incredible job of building a young, talented, deep squad. — John W. Henry
  • Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved. — Mattie Stepanek
  • To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless. — Mike Krzyzewski
  • Together we can do great things. — Mother Teresa
  • Good atmosphere and smart people can accomplish a lot. — Jim Simons
  • The Spurs are a great WNBA team. — Shaquille O'Neal

Top 10 Great Team Quotes

None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful. — Mother Teresa

Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way. — George S. Patton

Barca is more than a club and a great team and I want to contribute to Messi staying the best for many years. — Neymar

Great teams are not made up of many well-rounded players. Great teams are made up of a variety of players, each having their own strengths. — Pele

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot. — Bill Russell

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'. — Tom Peters

A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are. — Ara Parseghian

Courage is the ability to go from failure to failure with enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill

Courage is the ability to go from failure to failure with enthusiasm. — Winston Churchill

Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal. — Patrick Lencioni

It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Great Team Image Quotes

Winning is about having the whole team on the same page. - Bill Walton quote

Winning is about having the whole team on the same page. — Bill Walton

Great team quote Silence is a source of great strength.
Silence is a source of great strength.

Great Team Building Quotes

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. — Rensis Likert

Building a great company is all about assembling a team of people smarter than you. — Balaji Srinivasan

Your biggest challenge will be building a great team. — John Doerr

Great team quote Make today so awesome, yesterday gets jealous.
Make today so awesome, yesterday gets jealous.

Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play. — Dean Smith

A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues. — Lee Iacocca

Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success. — Stephen Covey

Great team quote Great minds discuss ideas.Average minds discuss events.Small minds discuss people.
Great minds discuss ideas.Average minds discuss events.Small minds discuss people.

Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. — Max Eastman

No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

One man cannot make a team. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Individuals don't build great companies, teams do. — Mark Suster

Great Team Work Quotes

I was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for free. What else do you want in life? People think that is what it is like to be in a SEAL team, but it is less than a fraction of your career as a real SEAL. — Jocko Willink

Technique is not being able to juggle a ball 1000 times. Anyone can do that by practicing. Then you can work in the circus. Technique is passing the ball with one touch, with the right speed, at the right foot of your team mate. — Sayings

There's no lotion or potion that will make sales faster and easier for you - unless your potion is hard work. — Jeffrey Gitomer

Great team quote Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.

I believe in work, in connections between the players, I think what makes football great is that it is a team sport. You can win in different ways, by being more of a team, or by having better individual players. It is the team ethic that interests me, always. — Arsene Wenger

While working as a team, you push yourself forward and move outside the boundaries. It's a great thing. — Martin Margiela

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. — Seneca

Great team quote Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.
Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.

Any team can be a miracle team. The catch is that you have got to go out and work for your miracles. Effort is what ultimately separates great teams from ordinary teams. — Pat Riley

Even with my non-believing teammates, there is a great amount of unity and I truly believe that's God working. It's really cool in team sports when you're united around a belief or something you want to accomplish. — Tobin Heath

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success — Stephen Covey

Band members have a special bond. A great band is more than just some people working together. It's like a highly specialized army unit, or a winning sports team. A unique combination of elements that becomes stronger together than apart. — Steven Van Zandt

Good Team Quotes

I just think it's good to be confident. If I'm not on my team why should anybody else be? — Robert Downey, Jr.

The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better. — Tony Dungy

Goals aren't enough. You need goals plus deadlines: goals big enough to get excited about and deadline to make you run. One isn't much good without the other, but together they can be tremendous. — Ben Feldman

Great team quote You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game. — Tom Landry

How good can we expect to be if our best player is not our best teammate — Brad Stevens

The good teams, the dominant teams, aren't necessarily dominant in stadiums, but they are dominant largely in moments, when they do what's required to get out of stadiums with victories. — Mike Tomlin

Good luck needs no explanation. - Shirley Temple

Good luck needs no explanation. — Shirley Temple

Waking up early was the first example I noticed in the SEAL Teams in which discipline was really the difference between being good and being exceptional. — Jocko Willink

On good teams coaches hold players accountable, on great teams players hold players accountable — Joe Dumars

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

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

Great Teamwork Quotes

I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things. — Mother Teresa

The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members. — Coretta Scott King

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. — Alexander Graham Bell

Great team quote Failure is a great teacher, and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.
Failure is a great teacher, and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.

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

There is nothing scary about naturally talented people, hardworking people are the ones to be afraid of. — Lisa Manoban

Success isn’t a game won by whoever does the most. — Gary Keller

Great team quote To a great mind, nothing is little.
To a great mind, nothing is little.

For a group to be great, both good governance and excellent execution are required. It’s not one or the other. — Koos Bekker

I’ve always said that the key to our success is not how big we are, it’s how small we act. Our people are what make us great. — Glen Bell

I can’t even explain how blessed I am and how fortunate that I have such a great team that believes in me. — Holly Holm

I think sport can play a really positive role in young girls’ lives and be great to see as many of them playing sport as possible. — Ellyse Perry

Good Teamwork Quotes

I think there will be good results if you believe in yourself and work hard. Cheer up, we’re rooting for you guys. — Lisa Manoban

To see the line between being good and bad is really thin. It’s not easy for anyone, not the manager, the players or the staff. — Mikel Arteta

I helped several of my competitors get started. People seem to think we ought to hate each other, but we’ve stayed good friends. — Glen Bell

Great team quote Average people have great ideas. Legends have great execution.
Average people have great ideas. Legends have great execution.

Trust is the confidence among team members that their peers' intentions are good, and that there is no reason to be protective or careful around the group. In essence, teammates are not comfortable being vulnerable with one another. — Patrick Lencioni

The personal stats are good, but the collective is better. — Kylian Mbappe

Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership. — Daley Thompson

Great team quote Don't fear the failure... in great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
Don't fear the failure... in great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

If you work hard and get help from good friends, together you can overcome almost any challenge, no matter how great. — Michael J. Massimino

One of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal. — Benjamin Carson

It’s always good to play with big players, you know. — Paul Pogba

Let us be good stewards of the Earth we inherited. All of us have to share the Earth's fragile ecosystems and precious resources, and each of us has a role to play in preserving them. If we are to go on living together on this earth, we must all be responsible for it. — Kofi Annan

Great Company Quotes

If I had to advise parents, I should tell them to take great care about the people with whom their children associate . . . Much harm may result from bad company, and we are inclined by nature to follow what is worse than what is better. — Elizabeth Ann Seton

The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best, but legendary. — Sam Walton

Good companies will meet needs; great companies will create markets. — Philip Kotler

Great team quote No one has ever made himself great by showing how small someone else is.
No one has ever made himself great by showing how small someone else is.

Great companies are built by people who never stop thinking about ways to improve the business. — J. Willard Marriott

This is a very exciting time in the world of information. It`s not just that the personal computer has come along as a great tool. The whole pace of business is moving faster. Globalization is forcing companies to do things in new ways. — Bill Gates

Mr. Lincoln was not only a great President, but a great man - too great to be small in anything. In his company I was never in any way reminded of my humble origin, or of my unpopular color. — Frederick Douglass

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company. — Jane Austen

Maybe it makes me old-fashioned, but investing to me is about owning great companies for many, many years. — Francois Rochon

I was at business school doing pretty well for myself, had a few offers from some great companies. But when I traveled across the world, I was shocked by just how much pain, struggle, and anguish people had to go through to have basic necessities. — Jay Shetty

Those who build great companies understand that the ultimate throttle on growth for any great company is not markets, or technology, or competition, or products. It is one thing above all others: the ability to get and keep enough of the right people. — James C. Collins

Great Family Quotes

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. - Ruth Graham

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. — Ruth Graham

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path. — Agatha Christie

A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family. You still gotta stand up and be that guy even when you ain't having great things. Because you've gotta be the spokesperson for your people. — Young Jeezy

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish. — Pope John Paul II

If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer. — Paul D. Boyer

When Jesus is truly our Lord, He directs our lives and we gladly obey Him. Indeed, we bring every part of our lives under His lordship - our home and family, our sexuality and marriage, our job or unemployment, our money and possessions, our ambitions and recreations. — John Stott

If you love something, set it free. — Abraham Lincoln

I'm lucky to have a great support system in my friends and some of my family. If you have those people that you trust, go ahead and fall back into them and let them be your hammock and cocoon and let them embrace you. — Sayings

The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family... The family is placed at the center of the great struggle between good and evil, between life and death, between love and all that is opposed to love. — Pope John Paul II

Best things in life aren't things. — Mike Ness

Team Work Quotes

I love being part of something that is working toward a greater goal, and there's no more satisfaction in life than achieving those goals as a team and being a part of that team. — Jim Harbaugh

The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team. — Phil Jackson

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

It's easier to be ignorant and say I don't know about the problem. But once you know, once you've seen it in their eyes, then you have a responsibility to do something. There is strength in numbers, and if we all work together as a team, we can be unstoppable. — Craig Kielburger

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. — Vince Lombardi

What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis. — W. Edwards Deming

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. — Andrew Carnegie

The ability for a group of people to do remarkable things hinges on how well those people can pull together as a team. — Simon Sinek

It's not just about working hard, it's about working together. You have to care more about the team than you do about yourself — John Calipari

A team is not a bunch of people with job titles, but a congregation of individuals, each of whom has a role that is understood by other members. — Meredith Belbin

Successful Team Quotes

The formula for success is every guy can make a difference for the entire team in whatever his role is. And to do it right, to get it right, is a critical factor in being successful. — Nick Saban

A team is not made up of isolated individuals. Always stay in the game. Don't be passive. Football is a team game. No one plays alone. Success depends on your whole team being a single unit. — Pele

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime. — Babe Ruth

Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously. — Mark Twain

Happiness for me is really leading the team and, if possible, leading them to the top. — Bernard Arnault

Engage, educate, equip, encourage, empower, energize, and elevate. Those are the methods for maximizing the potential of any individual, team, organization, or institution for ultimate success and significance. Those are the methods of a mentor leader. — Tony Dungy

The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team. — Jocko Willink

Most talented players don't always succeed. Some don't even make the team. It's more what's inside. — Brett Favre

Building a strong team around you and being able to really communicate well with them is part of what’s going to bring you a higher level of success. — Meghan Markle

Successful programs consist of people working hard, working together, while never worrying about who gets the credit. — Don Meyer

Inspirational Teamwork Quotes

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. - Harry S. Truman

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. — Harry S. Truman

When you stop giving and offering something to the rest of the world, it's time to turn out the lights. — George Burns

Adidas is a very personal inspiration to me. It has enriched my creative life. It's an exchange between different cultures, different ideas, and most of all, it is teamwork. — Yohji Yamamoto

Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they're doing it because they care about the team. — Patrick Lencioni

The team with the best athletes doesn't usually win. It's the team with the athletes who play best together. — Lisa Fernandez

Do you want a collection of brilliant minds or a brilliant collection of minds? — Meredith Belbin

The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven. — Knute Rockne

You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation. — Homer Rice

Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability. — Patrick Lencioni

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place. — Robert Schumann

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More Great Team Quotes

A lot of people, when a guy scores a lot of goals, think, 'He's a great player', because a goal is very important, but a great player is a player who can do everything on the field. He can do assists, encourage his colleagues, give them confidence to go forward. It is someone who, when a team does not do well, becomes one of the leaders. — Pele

Hungry is a word that I've been analyzing here of late. It's not hunger that drives me, it's not hunger that needs to drive our football team. Hunger and thirst are things that can be quenched. We have to be a driven group, we have to seek greatness. — Mike Tomlin

We are all going to fall short. We are going to have some bitter losses, very painful defeats and failures. We have to use those to come back even stronger. That's what makes it sweeter, when we can overcome those and figure out a way to win. The great teams can do that, and those are the gold medal winning teams. — Karch Kiraly

Perhaps the toughest call for a coach is weighing what is best for an individual against what is best for the team. Keeping a player on the roster just because I liked him personally, or even because of his great contributions to the team in the past, when I felt some one else could do more for the team would be a disservice to the team's goals. — Tom Landry

On the eve of this great adventure I send my best wishes to every soldier in the Allied team. To us is given the honour of striking a blow for freedom which will live in history; and in the better days that lie ahead men will speak with pride of our doings. — Bernard Law Montgomery

I'm the head coach at LSU. I will be the head coach at LSU. I have no interest in talking to anybody else. I got a championship game to play, and I'm excited for the opportunity of my damn strong football team to play in it. Please ask me after. I'm busy. Thank you very much. Have a great day! — Les Miles

Great moments are born from great opportunities. — Herb Brooks

The more honor and self-respect among players, the greater the team. — Frosty Westering

I'm here today because God has brought me here. Jesus has brought me here...I'm with an amazing team. I believe He perfectly placed me in the right spot at the right time. — Russell Wilson

I got to move on. I got to keep making winning plays. I got to keep competing. I got to keep finding ways to help my team be great. — Giannis Antetokounmpo

This is your time. Their time is done. It's over. I'm sick and tired of hearing about what a great hockey team the Soviets have. Screw 'em. This is your time. Now go out there and take it! — Herb Brooks

High sticking, tripping, slashing, spearing, charging, hooking, fighting, unsportsmanlike conduct, interference, roughing......everything else is just figure skating. — Scotty Bowman

I really don't care what the other team thinks. I don't care what their fans think. If they hate me, great. Hate me. We'll just keep winning, I'll keep scoring and we'll move on. — P. K. Subban

We get nose jobs all the time in the NHL, and we don't even have to go to the hospital. — Brad Park

Internalize the Golden Rule of sales that says: All things being equal, people will do business with, and refer business to, those people they know, like and trust. — Bob Burg

Good leaders don't tell people what to do, they give teams capability and inspiration. — Jeffrey R. Immelt

It's stunning to me what kind of an impact even one person can have if they have the right passion, perspective and are able to align the interest of a great team. — Steve Case

A person really doesn't become whole, until he becomes a part of something that's bigger than himself. — Jim Valvano

Football is an honest game. It's true to life. It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life. — Joe Namath

Recognize and reward players who put the team first, not just the gifted ones. — Don Meyer

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