Quotes about Team Collaboration

Dani Alves understands French because he plays alongside many French players but he asks me how to say 'orange juice' at the restaurant, for example.

From an early age, I understood the concept that, if you're not the star, then your job is to not pull attention away from the star.

When you run a part of the relay and pass on the baton, there is no sense of unfinished business in your mind. There is just the sense of having done your part to the best of your ability. That is it. The hope is to pass on the baton to somebody who will run faster and run a better marathon.

If you have one guy taking all of the shots, you're obviously not playing very fast, because you have to slow it down and wait for him to get to his spot in the offense. But when you just want the best shot possible, a lot of different people are going to get the ball.

Greatest thing in our partnership is the sharing of responsibility; if one of us has to go away, we always know someone vitally concerned is on the spot.

You gotta put me on a team with LeBron or Chris Paul or someone and I can just spot up in the corner and let them go to work, kick it to me.

When I jumped ship from Roush Racing to Hendrick Motorsports, I couldn't believe the amount of personnel here that get along with each other. It's pretty amazing that there are so many people under one roof, where Roush is more spread out and it feels so different.

Spreading the wealth and giving other assistant coaches their due is critical.

I'm really happy to be working with Jose Mourinho. He's a great person and he's always keen to communicate with the squad and help people to be communicative regarding what they're to do on the pitch.

I will comprehensively review the education system with my team to create a stable, caring, and inspiring environment for students, parents, teachers, and principals.

I learned from everybody whose staff I was on. You always learn something.

I see the staff and crew on the set as my equals. When I make a mistake, they know they can call my attention or even tell me what to do.

The platform that we have created here in Tottenham is the most important, the platform we created between all the coaching staff - in the academy and the first team. The platform we created is more important than one person.

As a manager, you are important sometimes, and you make mistakes, but the most important people are your staff and your players. Never call me 'the special one!'

I am all about teams. I think I have probably got a reasonably relaxed style as a senior leader, I am pretty demanding, I am known as tough, not a soft touch, but I try to be friendly and I want my staff to feel they can come up and chat to me.

It always starts with having great competitors on your team, in your front office, on your coaching staff.

When every guy on the team and the coaching staff is telling you, 'shoot it, shoot it,' obviously I've always known I could shoot it, but it was more of a trying to get the guys involved and being that middle man.

Luis Enrique and his coaching staff can do great things.

For the most part, from the player standpoint, the coaches do the coaching and you try to come in and execute the game plan or the scheme they put in front of you.

David Luiz has to work with the others if he deserves to play; otherwise, he will stay on the bench or in the stands.

When you take away all the people whose shoulders a CEO stands on, the CEO is just a person.

Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.

Why should I clutter my mind with general information when I have men around me who can supply any knowledge I need?

The question who ought to be boss is like who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tunor.