Trample the weak. Hurdle the dead.
— Attila the Hun
Unpopular Team Motivation quotations
The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.
Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
Winning as a team is better than anything. It's great to share success.
Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts.
It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine.
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.
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.
Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.
The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.
When building a team, I always search first for people who love to win.
If I can't find any of those, I look for people who hate to lose.
The team with the best athletes doesn't usually win.
It's the team with the athletes who play best together.
A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.
Do you want a collection of brilliant minds or a brilliant collection of minds?
No individual can win a game by himself.
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.
Courage is the ability to go from failure to failure with enthusiasm.
Day by day, what you do is who you become.
Remember teamwork begins by building trust.
And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.
It's never an upset if the so-called underdog has all along considered itself the better team.
If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.
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.
My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team.
Most talented players don't always succeed. Some don't even make the team. It's more what's inside.
A single leaf working alone provides no shade.
I continually stress to my players that all I expect from them at practice and in the games is their maximum effort.
Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.
The glory of sport is witnessing a well-coached team perform as a single unit, striving for a common goal and ultimately bringing distinction to the jersey the players represent.
There's no lotion or potion that will make sales faster and easier for you - unless your potion is hard work.
You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, ackowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins.
The best teams have chemistry. They communicate with each other and they sacrifice personal glory for a common goal.
In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
A person really doesn't become whole, until he becomes a part of something that's bigger than himself.
In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team.
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.
Football is an honest game. It's true to life. It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life.