Quotes About Great Teams

#1. Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal.

Patrick Lencioni

#2. The real good teams and the real great teams find a way to win.

Allan Ray

#3. Great players and great teams want to be driven. They want to be pushed to the edge. They don't want to be cheated. Ordinary players and average teams want it to be easy

Pat Riley

#4. Budgets may count Full-Time Equivalents (FTEs), but great teams count on people.

Johanna Rothman

#5. I won eight Stanley Cups as a player, and I've been told it's because I played on great teams. I won two as a general manager, and I've been told it's because I was lucky.

Serge Savard

#6. Look at great teams like Detroit a couple of years ago; they win the Stanley Cup and guys only score 25 goals, nobody has a really big season.

Peter Bondra

#7. Play off your great player ... great teams have a go-to player and they play off of him.

Don Meyer

#8. Great teams work harder after a tough loss.

Ron Brown

#9. In great teams, conflict becomes productive. The free flow of conflicting ideas is critical for creative thinking, for discovering new solutions no one individual would have come to on his own.

Peter Senge

#10. When you think about great teams, The Beatles and the Pythons immediately spring to mind. The Pythons were as much a part of their time as The Beatles.

Robyn Hitchcock

#11. This city has two great teams - Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.

Bill Shankly

#12. You learn from everybody. You learn from the players. You learn from great coaches. You learn from great teams

Tom Thibodeau

#13. Throughout my career, I was blessed with great teams and great teammates.

Roger Craig

#14. All we do is sign great teams, and stay out of the way. The rest will take care of itself.

Mike Wilson

#15. Be more loving. Great teams are built by authentic leaders who are not afraid to speak truthfully and show kindness. This is not a sign of weakness, it is a sign of strength.

Robin S. Sharma

#16. Good teams beat you with speed. Great teams beat you with spacing and timing.

Jason Kidd

#17. Any team can be a miracle team. The catch is that you have got to go out and work for your miracles. Effort is what ultimately separates great teams from ordinary teams.

Pat Riley

#18. A baseball manager recognizes a nonphysical talent, hustle, as an essential gift of great players and great teams. It is the characteristic of running faster than necessary, moving sooner than necessary, trying harder than necessary. It is essential for great programming teams, too.

Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

#19. Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.

Ed Greenwood

#20. The great teams find a way to win.

Allan Ray

#21. Great teams always have a Plan B. Look at Barcelona. Their Plan B is to stick to Plan A

Johnny Giles

#22. Leo [Messi] is the best player of all time - better than Pele, Maradona or Cruyff. There have been some great teams in history - Pele's Brazil, Cruyff's Ajax, Sacchi's Milan - but in the past 20 years this Barcelona team is the best.

Xavi

#23. On good teams coaches hold players accountable, on great teams players hold players accountable

Joe Dumars

#24. Great teams have players who understand their responsibilities.

Bruce Brown

#25. The fixed-mindset premise that great geniuses do not need great teams. They just need little helpers to carry out their brilliant ideas.

Carol S. Dweck

#26. 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

#27. I've been real fortunate to be on a lot of great teams.

Ed Belfour

#28. Anytime you've got an opportunity to play for your country and win a gold medal, I think that takes it all. That's the greatest thing you could ever achieve in your sport. So, I have been very fortunate to play on great teams, but the gold medal was probably the best.

Larry Bird

#29. Great teams make clear and timely decisions and move forward with complete buy-in from every member of the team, even those who voted against the decision. They leave meetings confident that no one on the team is quietly harboring doubts about whether to support the actions agreed on.

Patrick Lencioni

#30. Great execution. That's what you have to do when you're playing great teams.

Tracy McGrady

#31. The key to long term success in the marketplace is to build relationships & acquire leadership skills that can build great teams.

JR

#32. For our teams that do great work, we have a tradition of giving Rolex watches. If you see all the key guys with their Rolexes, that's sort of our Medal of Honor if you do something big.

Ross Perot Jr.

#33. If there is delay in getting culling teams out, delay in any part of the chain, even weeks, that could have great implications for the virus to spread.

David Nabarro

#34. Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We.

Phil Jackson

#35. A great team doesn't mean that they had the smartest people. What made those teams great is that everyone trusted one another. It can be a powerful thing when that magic dynamic exists.

Gene Kim

#36. It's a great start, but we have a tough group: we have big teams like Denmark, Armenia and Serbia, so starting here gives us a good opportunity to fight until the end.

Lorik Cana

#37. The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.

Jay Chiat

#38. Some sports teams hate each other in the locker room and that's what makes them great.

Ira Kaplan

#39. Why are there no great women artists?' sounds as ignorant of human geography as the query 'Why are there no Eskimo tennis teams?

Francine Du Plessix Gray

#40. Basketball Rule #6
A great team
has a good scorer
with a teammate
who's on point
and ready
to assist.

Kwame Alexander

#41. I've got such great people around me. They don't really care if they make me angry. A lot of teams, they're afraid to make the artist angry, because they don't want to get fired and all that stuff. My team's pretty good about letting me know when to get in line.

Justin Bieber

#42. Individuals don't build great companies, teams do.

Mark Suster

#43. The spirit of the Olympic movement is great for young people because it teaches them about the training and discipline required to compete. Even if they don't make the teams, they can rededicate their lives to the art of sport, discipline, and physical fitness.

Richard M. Daley

#44. I think there's an awful lot of ball players with great skills, but whether or not they're going to be on winning teams is not going to be answered until you see how they fit in to a team or a program. If they don't, it may be their fault or it may be their coaches.

Tex Winter

#45. You've got to give great tools to small teams. Pick good people, use small teams and give them great tools so that they are very productive in terms of what they are doing.

Bill Gates

#46. I think one of the great things about a football season is that you see teams play in all types of environments, and if you can't handle one of them, you probably don't deserve to win anyway.

Bill Simmons

#47. We don't sell a car, we sell a dream. We are Italy's national team. There are many great soccer teams in our country, but there is only one Ferrari.

Luca Cordero Di Montezemolo

#48. They need to do two things if they're going to be great and win a championship: take the ball away and keep teams out of the end zone. You have those two things, that's the recipe for a championship.

Willie McGinest

#49. To be a great game, one of the teams has to score first.

Mark Lawrenson

#50. I think there's a lot of different ways to win. You've seen teams that win championships with a super-duper star like Kobe Bryant. Those championship teams with Michael Jordan certainly had a great, great player.

Doug Collins

#51. I've done a number of things in the spirit of employee motivation. I tend to be a storyteller and a student of history. I often tell stories of great battles, like the battle of Thermopylae, to inspire teams who face what appear to be insurmountable odds.

Brad D. Smith

#52. Mediocre products with great sales teams always beat great products with mediocre sales teams.

Donal Daly

#53. It wasn't like it is now. But for the types of teams we had, the fans were very good here. On some Thursday afternoon games, we'd get 25,000 fans. That was remarkable. This has always been a great Red Sox city.

Curt Gowdy

#54. One of London's massive strengths is its sporting prowess, its great football teams.

George Osborne

#55. That's one of the great oddities of baseball: Success is relative. A hitter who fails 70 percent of the time at the plate is a potential member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and many World Championship teams lose more than 70 games during their title-winning seasons.

Don Yaeger

#56. D-Bo had a great game, so now a lot of teams, they're not sure what to do. They can't just key on me. They've got to key on both of us. D-Bo had a coming-out party.

Calvin Johnson

#57. You've got to be extremely careful, because you could be with a great team, and you could be the product of a great team. There are some players that stand out despite the teams that they play on, and there are some players that are good because of the team that they're with.

Marcus Allen

#58. Teams that are moved by great purpose become tighter still when things are tough.

Eric Greitens

#59. Humility is what makes teams great. I've preached it for a long period of time.

Rick Pitino

#60. The Florida State League was considered the top A-league back then. You played in the spring training parks of major league teams, traveled throughout some great cities in Florida, and the pay was the best in A-ball.

Jim Evans

#61. - As the poet Hebbel noted, "Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion." Executives know their development teams need to be passionate about their projects; otherwise, the projects and the company will remain mediocre.

Anonymous

#62. My father was a really good athlete, so his pop-ups really were sky high. Eventually I learned how to judge them properly and catch them well. It was great training for when I started to play on teams, which I did all through school.

Artie Lange

#63. Every profession has changed. Journalism has changed. Medicine has changed. Technology has changed and it evolves. The same is true of football. Free agency has now allowed teams to be a dynasty as they have been before. It is not a great thing for the fans, but it is a good thing for the players.

Marv Levy

#64. I think that a lot of players and a lot of teams don't think of contact lenses as being a part of that essential gear but it truly is. You want every competitive advantage you can find and obviously having great vision is one of those advantages.

Heather O'Reilly

#65. I've been fortunate over the years to have been on good teams and as a result I've been able to score some goals but I wouldn't say I'm great at it.

Jeff Cunningham

#66. Nobody achieves anything great by giving the minimum. No teams win championships without making sacrifices and giving their best.

John C. Maxwell

#67. It's funny, because when I went down to the combine for the interviews with teams, Charles Haley is the name that came up a lot as a comparison to the way I play. A lot of people said that I reminded them of him, and that's a great honor.

Justin Tuck

#68. [Wayne Rooney] has to be viewed as a great England striker if he breaks Sir Bobby Charlton's record. Scoring goals at international level is much more difficult than it was a few years back because even the lesser teams are well organised and don't concede too many goals these days.

Michael Owen

#69. Great creative teams are diverse. They are composed of very different sorts of people with different but complementary talents.

Ken Robinson

#70. It's going to be crazy. All eight teams here are good teams. Hopefully the atmosphere will be great because it's going to be great basketball.

Chris Kraus

#71. The key is having great players. But there are a lot of teams that have All-Stars and haven't been able to put it together.

Mark Cuban

#72. A lot of TV is put together by teams, by writing staffs and several different directors. It's a great, very smart way to make television. It's worked for however long TV's been around.

Louis C.K.

#73. We need a system where all of our teams have the opportunity to compete and to make a few dollars. That's not a bad desire for collective bargaining for a sports league, and it's great for our fans.

David Stern

#74. When football stars disappear, so do the teams, and that is a very curious phenomenon. It is like in the theatre, in a play, where there is a great star. If the star is not well, the whole cast suffers.

Pele

#75. The ultimate test of a great team is results. And considering that tens of thousands of people escaped from the World Trade Center towers in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., there can be no doubt that the teams who risked, and lost, their lives to save them were extraordinary.

Patrick Lencioni

#76. When I'm playing the 1-guard, teams do a great job of just loading up and preparing for my drives and preparing for my three-point shots.

Kyrie Irving

#77. In all the research you do as a coach, studying other coaches and championship-type situations, you find that all those teams combined talent with great defense. You've got to stop other teams to win.

Pat Riley