The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.
— Phil Jackson
Restlessness Team Work Motivational quotations
Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.
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?
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.
Remember teamwork begins by building trust.
And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.
If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.
A single leaf working alone provides no shade.
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 way a team plays as a whole determines its success.
People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.
The secret of winning is working more as a team, less as individuals.
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual. People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Make sure that team members know they are working with you, not for you.
One man cannot make a team.
As a student of the game, it is a dream come true to align myself with a brand that has a rich history in sports. Like most kids, I grew up idolizing Michael Jordan and continue to work relentlessly to reach his iconic status on the court. I'm truly motivated to take my career to the next level as a member of Team Jordan.
Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success
The path to greatness is along with others.
Even when you have skilled, motivated, hard-working people, the wrong team structure can undercut their efforts instead of catapulting them to success. A poor team structure can increase development time, reduce quality, damage morale, increase turnover, and ultimately lead to project cancellation.
Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.
A true champion works hard and never loses sight of her dreams.
Good ideas are common - what's uncommon are people who will work hard enough to bring them about.
Team members who feel threatened but who are not aware of it become rigid - and that stops teamwork.
The principle is competing against yourself.
Teams are successful when they are focused, have a short cycle time, and are supported by the executives.
Great teams work harder after a tough loss.
Hard work and togetherness. They go hand in hand. You need the hard work because it's such a tough atmosphere... to win week in and week out. You need togetherness because you don't always win, and you gotta hang though together.
Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.
There is a strong sense of understanding, appreciation, shared responsibility, and trust that unites and motivates the team to work together.
The best thing that a coach can have is experience.
The first time that you're going out to lead a team on the field, you have certainly thought about what you're going to say, but it gets easier as you go. You'll learn what works and what doesn't, not just about what you do on the field but what you say to players to get them motivated.
In my organizations I don't have employees;
I have teammates. Yes, I do pay people and offer them benefits. But people don't work for me. They work with me. We are working together to fulfill the vision. Without them, I cannot succeed. Without me, they cannot succeed. We're a team. We reach our goals together. We need each other. If we didn't, then one of us is in the wrong place.
One training device is the ergometer.
I never owned one, never trained on one, and practically never used one. The few national team tests I took on ergs were dismal failures, which worked wonders to further my dislike of these beastly creatures. Boring. Tedious. Noisy. Ergs have greatly cheapened rowing. Graceless. Greasy. Grim. The erg is to rowing what having sex by yourself is to having sex. Stop it!
It's often been said that you learn more from losing than you do from winning.
I think, if you're wise, you learn from both. You learn a lot from a loss. You learn what is it that we're not doing to get to where we want to go. It really gets your attention and it really motivates the work ethic of your team when you're not doing well.