
Top 66 Team Motivational Sayings
#1. The youth of America need routine, repetition toward excellence, a sound but not punishing discipline, and the opportunity to make mistakes without the feeling of failure.
George M. Gilbert
#2. Once an athlete feels his coach does not believe in him resentment develops and everyone loses at that point.
George M. Gilbert
#4. The development of the "We Believe" philosophy must be real and not cosmetic. Everyone must buy in and understand that it is not a motivational tool, but rather something very personal that should be lived and that all must believe in order for true success to be achieved.
George M. Gilbert
#5. The great cancer facing all of us during this 'new millennium' is entitlement.
George M. Gilbert
#7. The best part of it for me is the idea that this group of young men, who came together and believed in themselves, bought the team concept completely, took the names off the back of the jerseys, checked the egos at the door.
Tom Coughlin
#8. As a leader you set the tone for your entire team. Communicate your vision.
Colin Powell
#9. To become a better you, work in a team of like-minded people and learn new things you don't know.
Israelmore Ayivor
#10. Before success can truly become routine, there must be that transition from that wanting/hoping to have success toward honestly knowing you can earn success with your talents and work ethic.
George M. Gilbert
#11. My two most unproductive days of the week have always been yesterday and tomorrow. Keeping that in mind, I try to focus majority of my attention on today.
Mark W. Boyer
#12. The thing I learned when I was playing was that your best way of winning was to make it difficult for the other team to score in the last three innings.
Tony La Russa
#15. Dear 2016,
If I had any defeats in your team, I am glad they were on my terms.
Love,
Defeated Winner
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
#16. It is so easy to judge those around us and decide their value without knowing who they really are or what they truly represent.
George M. Gilbert
#17. Quitting is not an option. I will not let anyone on this team quit.
Herman Edwards
#18. Don't worry about your individual numbers. Worry about the team. If the team is successful, each of you will be successful, too.
Branch Rickey
#19. It is important for coaches to mentor young people toward those things that are most important in life and aid them in creating their own order of priorities to live by.
George M. Gilbert
#20. If you are not a part of the solution then you must be part of the problem. I am done with problems here!
George M. Gilbert
#21. Every time our great Country has been critically challenged either by dictators or terrorists, we as a Country have put aside our personal agendas and focused on doing what we need to do to win when threatened.
George M. Gilbert
#22. Being fired is part of the risk when anyone plans to take on the responsibility as a head coach.
George M. Gilbert
#23. Coaching is like riding a roller coaster with many ups and downs. The true test is weathering the storm. The average length of time anywhere in America that a man is a head high school football coach is three years.
George M. Gilbert
#24. There is no "I" in "Team," but there is an "E" for "Everyone." A team achieves more when everyone contributes.
Robert Cheeke
#25. This is truly a rags to riches story which doesn't happen often, but it does happen. Hope is offered to those who face similar challenges that in this great Country dreams can be realized when work ethic and passion lead the way.
George M. Gilbert
#26. We live in a society that only embraces success and that is who we are. It takes a great deal of inner strength to deal with the time commitment of coaching when very little seems to be accomplished.
George M. Gilbert
#27. America is a country built on unity, hard work and diligent pursuit of personal goals leading to collective success.
George M. Gilbert
#28. The truth is, forgiving is a rather simple concept to grasp. It is often imagined that when you forgive, you have to reconcile with someone and yet this is a larger team in which forgiveness is just a player.
Stephen Richards
#29. Winners accept responsibility because acceptance of responsibility nullifies excuses.
George M. Gilbert
#30. I will not promise boys positions, I will not promise any of you football success, I will demand discipline, character, respect, and work ethic throughout the program. If I succeed in getting people to believe then success will follow.
George M. Gilbert
#32. The coach is the team, and the team is the coach. You reflect each other.
Darrell Royal
#33. we first need to get boys out for football and then the plan will gradually come into play
George M. Gilbert
#34. The third year at a school for any head coach is the most important year for the program they are attempting to develop.
George M. Gilbert
#35. Nothing in life that is of value comes easy. If good things came easily then the value would be diminished. When we have a vested interest, when we give everything we have, then, and only then are those good times valuable.
George M. Gilbert
#36. The best teams have chemistry. They communicate with each other and they sacrifice personal glory for a common goal.
Dave DeBusschere
#37. If it annoys you when team members ask about their next promotion or talk about other job opportunities in the industry, you have motivational problems in the making. You need to build a habit of proactively seeking employee interests and suggesting follow-up steps.
Martin Zwilling
#38. Unity is the intentional inclination to corporately control our destination. In other words, achieving the dream takes a team!
DeWayne Owens
#39. The greatest and most inspiring mountain climbing achievements in history are not so much stories of individual achievement, but are stories of the extraordinary power of a unified, talented, prepared team that stays loyally committed to one another and to their shared vision to the end.
Stephen Covey
#40. The more that people know how they fit on a team, the more they will desire to properly make the most of their fit and maximize their contribution.
John C. Maxwell
#41. When you join teams that changes lives, yours will be the first.
Todd Stocker
#42. I think we had to hit rock-bottom in all facets of the program before we could ever start moving in a positive direction.
George M. Gilbert
#43. May we recognise the uniqueness of every individual and seek to complement each other.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#44. 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
#45. Well, there are three things that the average man thinks he can do better than anybody else. Build a fire, run a hotel and manage a baseball team.
Rocky Bridges
#46. I talked to the team a lot about staying power. You never find out if you have that until you've been beaten down a few times.
Bill Parcells
#47. In a highly performing team everyone achieves better than he/she would have achieved when working alone.
Israelmore Ayivor
#48. To achieve any group goal, individuals must work to improve themselves as a means to improve the group.
George M. Gilbert
#49. You don t get the breaks unless you play with the team instead of against it.
Lou Gehrig
#50. You have the capacity to do the work.
Find the willpower to begin work.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#51. As of today, you do anything that I feel is disrespecting our program in any way, you are gone! From this day forward, everyone will be at practice in uniform as we will either build this program into something or we will destroy it!
George M. Gilbert
#52. I play with a fear of letting my team down. That's what motivates me.
Jonny Wilkinson
#53. It is more likely that coaches have players go down in games they are losing than games they are winning.
George M. Gilbert
#54. I only want my team to play to its potential, as I perceive it to be. I really don't have any regard for anyone else's perception.
Bill Parcells
#55. My conclusion: Management is the most noble of professions if it's practiced well. No other occupation offers as many ways to help others learn and grow, take responsibility and be recognized for achievement, and contribute to the success of a team.
Clayton Christensen
#56. My first act after being named head coach of the Bulls was to formulate a vision for the team. I had to take into account not only what I wanted to achieve, but how I was going to get there.
Phil Jackson
#57. The true Entrepreneurship doesn't means to be your own boss, rather it is the thirst to follow your heart and work with the team of visionaries!
Ujjwal Chugh
#58. The coaches will offer a direction, a plan, routine, discipline and the players must develop the desire to work together accepting their roles as they learn in preparation for the season.
George M. Gilbert
#59. Coaches must take calculated risks all the time. One thing is to talk about what you plan to do and another is to prepare and then execute a plan toward change.
George M. Gilbert
#60. I have three messages," said the breathless Nyad."One is we should never ever give up. Two is you are never too old to chase your dreams. And three is it looks like a solitary sport but it takes a team.
Diana Nyad
#61. Things are changing, but this time I'm not afraid. This time I know who I am. This time I've made the right choice and fighting for the right team. I feel safe. Confident
Tahereh Mafi
#62. Commitment to the team - there is no such thing as in-between, you are either in our out.
Pat Riley
#63. The one man team is a complete and total myth.
Don Shula
#64. Why talk of the team when our Cricket Board is like an exclusive club with members being there for years on end? If they can stay on without performing, the players too feel they can stay in the team without too big a performance.
Sunil Gavaskar
#66. I teach our young men that respect is earned each day on the practice field, in the classroom, and how each young man lives his life.
George M. Gilbert
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