Teamwork Quotes
- “Teamwork is the ability to work as a group toward a common vision, even if that vision becomes extremely blurry.”
- “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.”
–Michael Jordan
- TEAM
T- Together
E- Everyone
A- Achieves
M- More
-Chambless
- “There are three types of workers: those who get things done, those who watch things get done, and those who wonder how
so much got done.”
- “Teachers call it copying...we call it teamwork!”
- “Coming together is a beginning.
Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success.”
–Henry Ford
- “The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world,
but if they don't play together, the club wont be worth a dime”
–Babe Ruth
- “A successful team beats with one heart.”
- “It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.”
- “Every team needs a hero, every hero needs a team.”
- “Getting' good players is easy. Getting' 'them to play together is the hard part.”
-Casey Stengel
- “There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.”
- "Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishment toward
organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results."
–Andrew Carnegie
- “It's not our conditions that determine our choices; it’s our choices that determine our conditions.”
- “A team that sweats together sticks together.”
- “Teamwork divides the task and doubles the success.”
- “Teamwork: Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world, indeed, it’s the
only thing that ever has.”
- “The ratio of We's to I's is the best indicator of the development of a team.”
–Lewis B. Ergen
- “Responsibility is a big thing, can you handle it.”
–Mersad Dedic
- “Teamwork doesn't tolerate the inconvenience of distance.”
- “Teamwork means never having to take the blame yourself.”
- “Teamwork is a well-blended peculiarities.”
–Jose B. Cabajar
- “I can do it when it's not hard but when it's hard i need teamwork as strong as a board.”
–Princessdiva
- “A boat doesn’t go forward if each one is rowing their own way.”
- “No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it.”
-H.E. Luccock
- “Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.”
- “Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.”
-Ryunosuke Satoro
- “When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.”
- “None of us is as smart as all of us.”
-Ken Blanchard
- “A team is more than a collection of people. It is a process of give and take.”
-Barbara Glacel & Emile Robert Jr.
- “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
-Helen Keller
- “Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.”
-Virginia Burden
- “In union there is strength.”
–Aesop
- “We’re going to turn this team around 360 degrees.”
- “Only strength can corporate, weakness can only beg.”
–Dwight Eisenhower
- “A successful team is a group of many hands but of one mind.”
–Bill Bethel
- “People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.”
–Vince Lombardi
- “Don't join an easy crowd; you won't grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.”
–Jim Rohn
- “Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.”
–Mark Twain
- “I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down
and I will not let myself down.”
–Mia Hamm
- “Teamwork means that you are willing to compromise when it is best for the team to advance to reach their goals.”
- Byron Pulsifer
- “Do you want a collection of brilliant minds or a brilliant collection of minds?”
- R.Meredith Belbin
- “I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.”
-Lee Iacocca
- “Empowered teams provide organizations with a capacity to leverage people as a competitive advantage.”
-Russell D. Robinson
- “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
- “No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.”
- B.Dodge
- “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
- “One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork.”
-Edward Abbey
- “Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be alone than in bad company.”
- George Washington
- “It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.”
-Napoleon Hill
- “Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation
- William Arthur Ward
- “Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.”
-Alexander Graham Bell
- “If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.”
–Bud Wilkinson
- “When a gifted dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, it’s ready to climb.”
–Pat Riley
- “What chance gathers she easily scatters? A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.”
–Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- “A job worth doing is worth doing together.”
- “Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.”
-Alexander the Great
- “Individual commitment to a group effort — that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.”
-Vince Lombardi
- “You should grow out of trying to do things for the appreciation and rewards. Those will come automatically. You must think about
passing the ball so that your team member can score the goal for the whole team.”
- “They said you have to use your five best players but I found you win with five who fit together the best.”
–Red Auerbach
- “Practice to beat the best.”
-Dick Bennett
- “If you want to go fast-go alone; if you want to go far, you have to go with others.”
-Dale Brown
- “Have a vision. Sell your program. Your team is going to reflect you.”
–Mark Gottfried
- “Your ability to communicate with your young people will determine your success.”
–Jim Harrick
- “Ability is what you are capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”
–Lou Holtz
- “Practice structure determines success.”
–Bobby Knight
- “The secret of winning is constant, consistent management.”
- “Regardless of differences, we strive shoulder to shoulder... Teamwork can be summed up in five short words: “
We believe in each other.””
- “It is a fact that in the right formation, the lifting power of many wings can achieve twice the distance of any bird flying alone.”
- “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
-Margaret Meade
- “Let each person know that they are an important part of the team.”
- “I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.
My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.”
–Mahatma Gandhi
- “If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.”
–Isaac Newton
- “Great teamwork comes from equality and mutual respect, not sameness.
Multiple perspectives and skills are essential.A team doesn’t need two left linebackers.”
-Jonathan Lockwood Huie
- “We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have a goal.
My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared.”
- “The players play on the team; they do not play as a team.”
- “One piece of log creates a small fire, adequate to warm you up, add just a few more pieces to blast an immense bonfire,
large enough to warm up your entire circle of friends; needless to say that individuality counts but team work dynamites.”
-Jin Kwon
- “The will to win is worthless if you do not have the will to prepare.”
–Thane Yost
- “Big thinking precedes great achievement.”
–Wilfred Peterson
- “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
- “We are most effect as a team when we compliment each other without embarrassment and disagree without fear.”
- “Rather than asking how to do something, ask how to do something for a million dollars.”
- “If we don’t discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us.”
- William Feather
- “Team player: One who unites others toward a shared destiny through sharing information and ideas, empowering others
and developing trust.”
- Dennis Kin law
- “We are what we repeatedly do; excellence then is not an act, but a habit.”
- Aristotle
- “A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.”
- “Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
- “If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.”
- “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.”
-John Donne
- “The key elements in the art of working together are how to deal with change, how to deal with conflict, and how to reach
our potential…the needs of the team are best met when we meet the needs of individuals persons.”
-Max DePree
- “Contrary to popular belief, there most certainly is an “I” in “team.” It is the same “I”
that appears three times in “responsibility.”
-Amber Harding
- “Synergism is the simultaneous actions of separate entities which together have greater total effect than the sum of
their individual effects.”
-Buchholz & Roth
- “The same dynamics that promote performance also support learning and behavioral change.”
-Katzenbach & Smith
- “Real teams don’t emerge unless individuals on them take risks involving conflict, trust, interdependence and hard work.”
-Katzenbach & Smith
- “To play the game is good,
To win is better,
But to love the game is best of all.”
- “Adversity causes some men to break, and others to break records.”
- “Ingenuity plus courage plus work equals miracles.”
- Bob Richards
- “Success is about having, excellence is about being. Success is about having money and fame, but excellence is being
the best you can be.”
- Mike Ditka
- “The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing it exactly right.”
- Edward C. Simmons
- “You can motivate players better with kind words than you can with a whip.”
- Bud Wilkinson
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