Quotes about Teamwork

I'd say handling people is the most important thing you can do as a coach. I've found every time I've gotten into trouble with a player, it's because I wasn't talking to him enough.

To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.

No tree becomes large without smaller trees hoping its branches get cut off.

Serve Them—A great leader once said, the higher you get in an organization the more it is your duty to serve the people below you rather than having the people below serve you. The key is to serve their growth, their future, their career, and their spirits so they enjoy work, life, and being on your bus.

After all, every team in the league has the same goals so it's not your goals that will lead to your success but your commitment to the process, one game at a time, that will define your season.

To build a winning team you must create a positive culture where negativity can't breed and grow, and the sooner you start weeding it from your team the stronger and more positively contagious your culture and team will be.

When leaders become focused on the fruit instead of the root and worry about the outcome instead of the process of developing team members, they may survive in the short run, but they will not thrive in the long run.

To build a winning team, you must help your players and staff have amnesia about past outcomes and remember all the little things they did to get better.

Great leaders are great because people trust and respect them, not because they have power.

Rule #6 Post a Sign That Says NO ENERGY VAMPIRES ALLOWED on Your Bus.

Your employees are tuning into your broadcast station and they want your energy. They need you more now than ever. And you need them. If you want them to receive more positive and powerful energy, then you got to broadcast that power by opening and tapping the power of your heart.

There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he does not mind who gets the credit.