Team
Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.
If there is one certainty in soccer, it is this: The quickest road to becoming a winning soccer team is to have a great goalkeeper.
Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference.
God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.
The thing about it is, all those races we lost, we won this race together. We won it as a team.
I've figured out that life in general is a team effort; it's a team game.
One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
On the First Coast, there's a team of individuals working extremely hard for the future of JAXPORT. On the road ahead, I look forward to working with them to see that the Port is afforded every opportunity to grow and expand. The challenge is large, but we are all up for it.
While a guy may not be totally happy, he can be effective and do well for the team.
I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else. I'm more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with? When I retire, I hope I am remembered for being a decent guy.
None of the things I have done would have been accomplished without a true team effort.
Management is defense. You basically say, 'This is the direction; this is where we're heading', and then it's my job to get everything else out of the way. All the other things that can become a distraction keep us from executing well. Get those out of the way, because the team ultimately needs to run in that direction and execute well.
A lot of people, when a guy scores a lot of goals, think, 'He's a great player', because a goal is very important, but a great player is a player who can do everything on the field. He can do assists, encourage his colleagues, give them confidence to go forward. It is someone who, when a team does not do well, becomes one of the leaders.
Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.
If Rob Ford decided he wanted to run for the Liberal Party in 2015, we'd say, 'No, sorry, the way you approach things, the way you govern, the way you behave is not suitable to the kind of Liberal team we want to build.'
No cricket team in the world depends on one or two players. The team always plays to win.
Individual commitment to a group effort — that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine.
Sports teaches you to understand the meaning of a team. You need to be able to work with everybody; you don't have to be their best friend. You can experience the fun of competition and driving toward a common goal without pushing to bond in some major way with each individual on a project.
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