Quotes About Teamwork

We have to show every team, whether it's Estonia, Belarus or Belgium, the same respect.

However good an actor may be, he can't make a scene believable on his own, so it has to be a team work.

You've got to believe in yourself that you will get the runs for your team.

People don't realize that everyone in the NBA is really good. The difference is having a coach that believes in you.

I think any player would tell you when you've got a coach that believes in you and you don't have to be looking over your shoulder after every play you do, and you can just go out and play, that's the coach you want to have on your team.

I'm the kind of actor who truly believes that every play is a company play.

To have a guy who believes in you from the time you step on the field as a rookie is just awesome.

I'm so grateful to everyone back home for believing, and to my band and team for all their hard work.

When you get a chance to play, if you help them win a game, then the team will start believing that the player can also do this for the team. So building that confidence for yourself and the team is very important.

In climbing, having confidence in your partners is no small concern. One climber's actions can affect the welfare of the entire team. The consequences of a poorly tied knot, a stumble, a dislodged rock, or some other careless deed are as likely to be felt by the perpetrator's colleagues as the perpetrator. Hence it's not surprising that climbers are typically wary of joining forces with those whose bona fides are unknown to them. But

I'm going to repeat that: Without the support of our Sherpas none of us has any chance of climbing the mountain.

While tentbound high on Everest, Mallory and his companions would read aloud to one another from Hamlet and King Lear

If someone like Pete Schoening was the equivalent of a major-league baseball star, my fellow clients and I were like a ragtag collection of pretty decent small-town softball players who'd bribed their way into the World Series.

never got used to it. So I was happy as hell when, at 7:10 A.M., he arrived atop the Balcony and gave me the O.K. to continue climbing. One of the first people I passed when I started moving again was Lopsang, kneeling in the snow over a pile of vomit. Ordinarily, he was the strongest member of any group

To change the culture leaders must make it clear that if a team member does make a medication error, it's a process problem, not a people problem. Our job as managers and leaders is to redesign the process that delivered the defect. The culture changes when the leaders focus on the process and quit blaming the people.

three Crossroads sophomores were shoveling snow with a zeal that suggested their work was voluntary.

Sports is to war as pornography is to sex.

In my new business, this is one of the things we work actively with CEOs to see: how one idea from the top can spiral into 100 projects for the team and overwhelm them in ways the CEOs can't even imagine. But

Great accountability is nothing more and nothing less than having the courage to demand that the people who work for you use their strengths in a responsible way. Learning

As Nat and Danny took the kick-off, the ref blew for full time.

Football is aesthetically ugly. Eleven players against eleven others running after a ball are not especially beautiful.

There is nothing that you and I could not accomplish together, if we gave our minds to it.

To all the usual folks: Mom, Sally, Nik, Russell, the DFWWW, my agent, my editor, Orbit Books, the people who buy the books, Optimus Prime, and the rest. You're still just as important as you ever were and this is a lot easier because of you. To Atomic Robo, for keeping my love of comic books alive and well. And to Victor Von Doom.

And now all the others are saying, "What about Us?" So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.