200 Team Quotes

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

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Famous Team Quotes

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

TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon results. — Andrew Carnegie

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. — Vince Lombardi

I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion. — Mia Hamm

A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say. — Michael Winner

To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless. — Mike Krzyzewski

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

My ambition is that I have the best players who can collaborate with each other to form the best team in the world. — Louis van Gaal

Teamplayer: Once who unites others toward a shared destiny through sharing information and ideas, empowering others and developing trust. — Dennis F. Kinlaw

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

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

To be the ultimate team, you must use your body and your mind. Draw up on the resources of your teammates. Choose your steps wisely and you will win. Remember, only teams succeed. — Jose Mourinho

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

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

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

Short Team Quotes

  • Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it's not the best thing for you. — Bill Belichick
  • There are no shortcuts to building a team each season. You build the foundation brick by brick. — Bill Belichick
  • Trample the weak. Hurdle the dead. — Attila the Hun
  • Losers assemble in small groups & complain, winners assemble as a team & find ways to win. — Bill Parcells
  • The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team. — Phil Jackson
  • Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way. — George S. Patton
  • Winning as a team is better than anything. It's great to share success. — Jim Harbaugh
  • Even the best team, without a sound plan, can't score. — Woody Hayes
  • We believe in people executing their role and caring about the team more than anything individually — Gregg Popovich
  • I just think it's good to be confident. If I'm not on my team why should anybody else be? — Robert Downey, Jr.
Team quote Leadership is earned. You want your team to feel like they work with you, not for you.
Leadership is earned. You want your team to feel like they work with you, not for you.

Working As A Team 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

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

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

Team quote If your heart is bigger than the big-gest guy on the team, then you're the biggest guy on the team.
If your heart is bigger than the big-gest guy on the team, then you're the biggest guy on the team.

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

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

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

Team quote Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.
Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.

Members of trusting teams accept questions and input about their areas or responsibility, appreciate and tap into one another's skills and experiences, and look forward to meetings and other opportunities to work as a group. — Patrick Lencioni

I can't tell you how much you gain, how much progress you can make, by working together as a team, by helping one another. You get much more done that way. If there's anything the Steelers of the '70s epitomized, I think it was that teamwork. — Chuck Noll

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. — Babe Ruth

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them. — Allan Fromme

Positive Team Quotes

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

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position. — Douglas Murray Mcgregor

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position. — Douglas McGregor

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. — Jim Stovall

I have long recognized a link between fitness and mental health and I think we need to encourage young people to take part in sports and team activities because we know it has such positive results. — Tipper Gore

Arsene Wenger's idea is not only to play good football. It's to play good football to win. In my day, we knew that with our style we could hurt teams and win trophies too. But we did it our way, with the positional game, passing, movement. — Dennis Bergkamp

The heartbeat of a football team is the quarterback position and I think everyone who has any intelligence about the game understands you must have consistency at that position to be a championship team. — Ron Jaworski

We literally had all 10 teams alive for a playoff position in the final week of the season. That outstanding balance and those close races created a major surge in attendance in the last month of the season. — Lamar Hunt

I think what coaching is all about, is taking players and analyzing there ability, put them in a position where they can excel within the framework of the team winning. And I hope that I've done that in my 33 years as a head coach. — Don Shula

I only get the points because I have team-mates who do the work and put me in the position to get them. — Jonny Wilkinson

Team Work Quotes

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

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

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

I can't make every decision for you. I don't have 14 timeouts. You guys got to get together and talk — Gregg Popovich

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

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

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

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

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

When I checked into SEAL Team One many years ago, one of the things that I noticed was there was this old guy, who was younger than I am today, who I decided that I was going to be like. I wanted to emulate what he was doing, and one of those things was he got to work before anybody else. — Jocko Willink

Team Player Quotes

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

When you start supporting a football club, you don't support it because of the trophies, or a player, or history, you support it because you found yourself somewhere there; found a place where you belong. — Dennis Bergkamp

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

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

Goals have never defined me as a player. What has defined me is my impact on the team. If that means passing or playing defense to win, I'll do it. — Mia Hamm

I often warn people: "Somewhere along the way, someone is going to tell you, 'There is no "I" in team.' What you should tell them is, 'Maybe not. But there is an "I" in independence, individuality and integrity. — George Carlin

The president requested me to restore order in the national team. I have been designated to be part of the official delegation to Egypt to help boost the morale of our players. — Roger Milla

When I first met him [James Galanis], he just said, "Look, if you want to be a professional soccer player, if you want to make the national team, you have to do everything possible to work hard. You’ve got to put it number one." — Carli Lloyd

The men can go away, the executives can go away, but what is really though in this society are the players who has been handed down the feel of winning, of being the absolute best, which isn't equal to any other team. — Gianluigi Buffon

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

Team Motivation Quotes

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

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

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

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. — Ross Perot

The best leaders understand the motivations of their team members and know their people - their lives and their families. But a leader must never grow so close to subordinates that one member of the team becomes more important than another, or more important than the mission itself. — Jocko Willink

No individual can win a game by himself. — Pele

Day by day, what you do is who you become. — Heraclitus

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

It's never an upset if the so-called underdog has all along considered itself the better team. — Woody Hayes

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

Team Building 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

A vital team characteristic is the ability to overcome adversity. Any team acquires experience and endurance as it learns to fight back. This in turn builds the kind of character which seldom crumbles at a time of crisis or testing. — Tom Landry

Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare. — Patrick Lencioni

Don't forget to tell your favorite people that you love them. - Shirley Temple

Don't forget to tell your favorite people that you love them. — Shirley Temple

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. — Larry Gelwix

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

Good luck needs no explanation. - Shirley Temple

Good luck needs no explanation. — Shirley Temple

It's as simple as this. When people don't unload their opinions and feel like they've been listened to, they won't really get on board. — Patrick Lencioni

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

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

Winning Team Quotes

I have always believed that you win as part of a team effort. I've learned that if everybody does a little bit, it adds up to a lot. — Jim Harbaugh

Revolution is a spectators sport. The majority will sit in the stands and watch the factions fight. At the end they will choose side with the team that is winning. — George Lincoln Rockwell

If you're struggling with your shooting, then do other things on the basketball court. Get steals, get assists, get rebounds-do anything on the court to help the team win. — Allen Iverson

It's time for the New England Patriots to move on and that's what our job is. And as I said, our goal is the same: to have a winning football team, to be a pillar in the community. That's what our direction is; that's what we're going to do. — Bill Belichick

My saying is; We win and lose together. I think that really does apply to both my fans, family and the team. — Lewis Hamilton

It's my dream and I see no point in speaking about other teams when I have these dreams. I think other people know that about me; I'm just hungry to win with Arsenal and that's it. — Robin van Persie

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. — Herb Brooks

Our goal is to develop our team, to earn what we get, to learn, to develop unselfish attitudes. If we achieve that, the results is that we'll win. — Marv Levy

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. — Wayne Gretzky

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

Basketball Team Quotes

There's a misconception about teamwork. Teamwork is the ability to have different thoughts about things; it's the ability to argue and stand up and say loud and strong what you feel. But in the end, it's also the ability to adjust to what is the best for the team. — Tom Landry

If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you. You haven't done much today. — Mikhail Gorbachev

A team divided against itself can break down at any moment. The least bit of pressure or adversity will crack it apart — Bill Parcells

A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play. — Mike Krzyzewski

The most important thing in coaching is communication. It's not what you say as much as what they absorb. — Red Auerbach

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

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

You don't just be a team. You become a team. Through tough games you find that you need each other — Mike Krzyzewski

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

When we're playing a good scoring center, we tell our team that it is not our defensive man's job to stop the center. It's the responsibility of our perimeter people to stop the ball from going inside. — Bobby Knight

Sports Team Quotes

If you begin to think business whether you own it or work for it like you would a well managed sports team you will learn a lot of very interesting lessons — Strive Masiyiwa

Great moments are born from great opportunities. — Herb Brooks

Go my favorite sports team go! Score a goal. Unit. Basket. Go squadron! Defeat the opponents soundly in this...skirmish. — Brian Regan

Only true champions come out and show their worth after defeat- and I expect us to do that. — Alex Ferguson

I think that from the time you start playing sports as a child you see that your responsibility to your team is to play the best that you can play as an individual... and yet, not take anything away from being part of a team. — Wayne Gretzky

My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team. — Don Shula

Yes, I thought I was joining Manchester United, I was misled by all involved. I wasnt aware of another Manchester team — Robinho

We had a good team on paper. Unfortunately, the game was played on grass. - Brian Clough

We had a good team on paper. Unfortunately, the game was played on grass. — Brian Clough

Play for the name on the front of the shirt, and they will remember the name on the back — Tony Adams

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

Team Member Quotes

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

Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved. — Theodore Roosevelt

Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved. — Guy Browning

Members of trusting teams admit weaknesses and mistakes, take risks in offering feedback and assistance, and focus time and energy on important issues, not politics. — Patrick Lencioni

I want to spend my time exploring the characters we've already got here. I want to give them more time to shine before the team gets to have 400 members. — Robert Kirkman

Team members need to feel trusted and valued, and micromanaging communicates the opposite. Founders who are prone to manage every detail of their businesses will ultimately kill themselves as well as lose the support of team members. Learn to delegate key tasks and give credit. — Martin Zwilling

I have been blessed with some really special crewmates. Being able to be a really integral member of the team, no matter what role I was in, was truly special. — Peggy Whitson

When individual members of the team are highly disciplined, they can be trusted and, therefore, allowed to operate with very little oversight. — Jocko Willink

The business changes. The technology changes. The team changes. The team members change. The problem isn't change, per se, because change is going to happen; the problem, rather, is the inability to cope with change when it comes. — Kent Beck

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

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

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

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

You'll never catch me bragging about goals, but I'll talk all you want about my assists. — Wayne Gretzky

I'd rather have 1% of the effort of 100 men than 100% of my own effort. - J. Paul Getty

I'd rather have 1% of the effort of 100 men than 100% of my own effort. — J. Paul Getty

Teamwork is the foundation of success. The three universal questions that an individual asks of his coach, player, employee, employer are: Can I trust you? Are you committed to excellence? And, do you care about me? — Lou Holtz

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. - Michael Jordan

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. — Michael Jordan

Democracy needs support and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies. Democratic nations should come together in an association designed to help each other and promote what is a universal value - democracy. — Benazir Bhutto

Team Support Quotes

My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats. — Juliet Mills

People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driver - but usually, in a war zone, there's only me and the cameraman. — Kate Adie

Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage. — Bart Starr

The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported. — Novak Djokovic

I am excited to rise today to support National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day. This celebration honors the husband and wife business owner teams whose work helps drive the economy and fuel job growth. — Melissa Bean

Being an England supporter is like being the over-optimistic parents of the fat kid on sports day. — John Bishop

Thank you to my family, my fans and fans of other teams for their support. The NFL is a fraternity of brothers and I am thankful for the tweets, phone calls and text messages from my fellow players. God Bless everyone and thank u so much. — Adrian Peterson

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

Leaders must earn the trust of their teams, their organizations, and their stakeholders before attempting to engage their support. — Warren G. Bennis

You can keep it to yourself, but you could also call a support team like the team at MS LifeLines. They are there to support the MS community and give good advice. — Teri Garr

Team Collaboration Quotes

Effective hiring screening and team building is not about bringing in the givers. It’s about weeding out the takers and if you can do that well you’ll be left with givers and matchers. — Adam Grant

In well-functioning teams, each individual has high accountability for their part. — Naval Ravikant

Collaboration, it turns out, is not a gift from the gods but a skill that requires effort and practice. — Douglas B. Reeves

To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with one another. — John C. Maxwell

I thought if people were going to talk about what I wear, wouldn't it be good if they were talking about who designed it, who made it and if that's a Scottish company, so teaming up with Totty Rocks has been fantastic. — Nicola Sturgeon

To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise. — Mitch Caplan

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. — Andrew Carnegie

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. — Mahatma Gandhi

If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary. — Winston Churchill

When somebody shares, everybody wins. — Jim Rohn

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More Team Quotes

The era of the rugged individual is giving way to the era of the team player. - Bruce Coslet quote

The era of the rugged individual is giving way to the era of the team player. — Bruce Coslet

It was my dream playing for the Montreal Canadiens - it was my dad's team. - Guy Lafleur quote

It was my dream playing for the Montreal Canadiens - it was my dad's team. — Guy Lafleur

Let's form proactive synergy restructuring teams. - Scott Adams quote

Let's form proactive synergy restructuring teams. — Scott Adams

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

I've always stood on my own two. I don't need a team. I don't do the entourage thing, 30 people. I don't do that. That's just not me. — Kevin Gates

One thing about championship teams is that they're resilient. No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity. — Nick Saban

Every organization needs to be introspective, transparent, and honest with itself. This only works if everyone is unified on the goals and purposes of the organization and there is trust within the team. High-performing, successful organizations build cultures of introspection and trust and never lose sight of their purpose. — Colin Powell

What a bunch of garbage, liberal, Democratic, conservative, Republican, it's all there to control you, two sides of the same coin! Two management teams, bidding for control of the CEO job of Slavery Incorporated! — Alex Jones

We create a standard for how we want to do things and everybody's got to buy into that standard or you really can't have any team chemistry. Mediocre people don't like high-achievers and high-achievers don't like mediocre people. — Nick Saban

You can change your wife, your politics, your religion, but never, never can you change your favourite football team. — Eric Cantona

People who are role models for the principles and values of the organization, who buy in and understand the vision of what the organization is trying to accomplish, and have the personality to inspire other people to the vision. You know, that’s what team chemistry and leadership is all about. — Nick Saban

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

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

Men of Oregon, I invite you to become students of your events. Running, one might say, is basically an absurd past-time upon which to be exhausting ourselves. But if you can find meaning, in the kind of running you have to do to stay on this team, chances are you will be able to find meaning in another absurd past-time: life. — Bill Bowerman

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

Joining a band of brothers together, a group with one common interest or mission, whether as a company, a team, or a motorcycle club, requires not only a commitment to loyalty but an understanding of self-preservati on as well. — Sonny Barger

The aim of human life is to know thyself. Think for yourself. Question authority. Think with your friends. Create, create new realities. Philosophy is a team sport. Philosophy is the ultimate, the ultimate aphrodisiac pleasure. Learning how to operate your brain, learning how to operate your mind, learning how to redesign chaos — Timothy Leary

I want longevity; I love music, being a musician is the greatest gift in the world to me, and if I were to get signed to a label, my family and team around me are always gonna be there to make sure they want the very best for me. My fans are what it's all about. — Christina Grimmie

If we want to find safe alternatives to obstetrics, we must rediscover midwifery. To rediscover midwifery is the same as giving back childbirth to women. And imagine the future if surgical teams were at the service of the midwives and the women instead of controlling them. — Michel Odent

Producing major change in an organization is not just about signing up one charismatic leader. You need a group - a team - to be able to drive the change. One person, even a terrific charismatic leader, is never strong enough to make all this happen. — John P. Kotter

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