The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.
— Phil Jackson
Superior Team Building Inspiration quotations
A team is not a group of people that work together.
A team is a group of people that trust each other.

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.

Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they're doing it because they care about the team.
The team with the best athletes doesn't usually win.
It's the team with the athletes who play best together.
Do you want a collection of brilliant minds or a brilliant collection of minds?

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

Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.
Teamplayer: Once who unites others toward a shared destiny through sharing information and ideas, empowering others and developing trust.
Neutrinos alone, among all the known particles, have ethereal properties that are striking and romantic enough both to have inspired a poem by John Updike and to have sent teams of scientists deep underground for 50 years to build huge science-fiction-like contraptions to unravel their mysteries.

You win with people, not with talent.
So the quality of the people is very important in building your team. I always looked for people with a solid value system. Then I recruited kids from a cross-section of different personalities, talents and styles of play.
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.
Good teams incorporate teamwork into their culture, creating the building blocks for success.

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.
So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.

When somebody shares, everybody wins.
Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play.
Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.

Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.
One man cannot make a team.

May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.
Find out what the other team wants to do. Then take it away from them.
No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.

The path to greatness is along with others.
It's easy to get good players. Getting them to play together, that's the hard part.
Overcoming barriers to performance is how groups become teams.

Everyone is needed, but no one is necessary.
Teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed
A demanding performance challenge tends to create a team.
Wearing the same shirts doesn't make a team.
A leader must inspire or his team will expire.