Teamwork Quotes

‘Unity is strength… when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.’ – Mattie Stepanek

‘Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.’ – Michael Jordan

‘It’s not just about winning or losing, but to learn about teamwork, learn about sportsmanship, learn about discipline. The value of working together for a common goal. Have the emphasis on fundamentals, not just games.’ – Erik Spoelstra

‘Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.’ – John C. Maxwell

‘I invite everyone to chose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.’ – Jean-Francois Cope

‘I’m going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France. They fly in V-formation but the second ones don’t fly. They’re the subs for the first ones. And then the second ones take over – so it’s teamwork.’ – Alex Ferguson

‘To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.’ – Mike Krzyzewski

‘Creating a better world requires teamwork, partnerships, and collaboration, as we need an entire army of companies to work together to build a better world within the next few decades. This means corporations must embrace the benefits of cooperating with one another.’ – Simon Mainwaring

‘The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.’ – James Cash Penney

‘It is teamwork that makes the dream work.’ – Jay Rock

‘Teamwork requires some sacrifice up front; people who work as a team have to put the collective needs of the group ahead of their individual interests.’ – Patrick Lencioni

‘When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.’ – Russel Honore

‘One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain’t nothin’ can beat teamwork.’ – Edward Abbey

‘We talk a lot about hope, helping, and teamwork. Our whole message is that we are more powerful together.’ – Victoria Osteen

‘Teamwork can build friendships that last a lifetime.’ – Natalya Neidhart

‘I’m a true believer in the strength of teamwork, in the power of dreams, and in the absolute necessity of a support structure.’ – Julie Payette

‘Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn’t do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.’ – Vince Lombardi

‘You can take a team of absolute all-stars in terms of their native abilities, but if they are not working together, they are much less effective than a team where there is less native ability but a higher degree of teamwork and cohesion.’ – Stewart Butterfield

‘Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.’ – Brian Tracy

‘We hire military veterans because they make great employees. They bring proven technical and leadership skills. They understand teamwork, and they’re adaptable. Bottom line, hiring veterans is good for business.’ – Randall L. Stephenson

‘The cinema is not a craft. It is an art. It does not mean teamwork. One is always alone on the set as before the blank page. And to be alone… means to ask questions. And to make films means to answer them.’ – Jean-Luc Godard

‘Filmmaking is teamwork.’ – Rajkummar Rao

‘If you’re going to preach dedication, work ethic, teamwork, unselfishness, and being part of a team to accomplish a common goal, you have to live it – you can’t just talk about it.’ – Chris Mullin

‘The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.’ – Igor Sikorsky

‘The main reason for our achievements is teamwork. It’s quite simply the group of people that are here at Red Bull Racing and Red Bull Technology working as one unit.’ – Christian Horner

‘When you start out in a team, you have to get the teamwork going and then you get something back.’ – Michael Schumacher

‘A lot of young players don’t really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.’ – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

‘I’m not under too much of an illusion of how smart or un-smart I am because filmmaking ultimately is about teamwork.’ – Guy Ritchie

‘You don’t look at the big problem all together, because I think it’s a little intimidating. So you just take it one day at a time, meet the people who are going to meet with you, for you, and who you’re going to work for, and really try to do the best job that you can. That’s all teamwork, and that’s what space travel is about.’ – Sunita Williams

‘The culture of undermining sends signals of disrespect. This approach not only saps motivation and undermines teamwork, it also lowers the motivation to work extra hours anticipating what can go wrong.’ – John Dickerson

‘I think Japanese people like teamwork. Sometimes they don’t try to be No. 1 or different to other people. That can be good but sometimes it means you don’t get a dream or a strong goal.’ – Kei Nishikori

‘Teamwork is a strategic decision.’ – Patrick Lencioni

‘No team works out teamwork.’ – Dwyane Wade

‘It all relies on teamwork. We could be running fifth all day, and we come down pit road for the last stop and the pit crew messes up, then we all go down and not just them.’ – Bubba Wallace

‘My mother was in the Army Reserve for six years. She taught me the importance of following rules, finishing what I start, never giving up, leadership skills, teamwork, staying positive, motivated and how to pack the military way when I’m traveling!’ – Laurie Hernandez

‘Teamwork. That’s the biggest lesson you can learn from competing in NCAA gymnastics. Everyone just has to work together, you have to trust in everyone, and everyone has to push you to become the gymnast you want to be.’ – Sam Mikulak

‘I think it’s really important to have a vision of teamwork, team play, and unselfishness.’ – Chris Mullin

‘My work is all about adventure and teamwork in some of the most inhospitable jungles, mountains and deserts on the planet. If you aren’t able to look after yourself and each other, then people die.’ – Bear Grylls

‘I got a lot of the greatest values in life from playing sports, from playing football – teamwork, sportsmanship, my work ethic, resiliency, dedication – I got it all by being on a team.’ – Jon Gruden

‘When employees join executives in truly owning the responsibility for business success, an exciting new sense of teamwork takes hold.’ – Punit Renjen

‘Football helped me tremendously, and that’s why I want the sport to stay because it’s so valuable. It’s helped me be a better physician today, certainly. I’ve learned discipline. I’ve learned focus, teamwork, communication.’ – Myron Rolle

‘Right now, you hear about teamwork, and it’s defined as 50-50, and that is a falsehood. There’s no such thing as 50-50. You know, you do whatever you have to do as part of the team.’ – Chuck Noll

‘From the beginning of my time in football, the common thread has always been teamwork and togetherness. That’s what’s going to help you achieve your goals in the end.’ – Kasper Schmeichel

‘You know how sports teach kids teamwork and how to be strong and brave and confident? Improv was my sport. I learned how to not waffle and how to hold a conversation, how to take risks and actually be excited to fail.’ – Emma Stone

‘In carrying out every aspect of our work, CIA officers are guided by a professional ethos that is the sum of our abiding principles, core values, and highest aspirations. These include service, integrity, excellence, courage, teamwork, and stewardship. Sacrifice, too, is an inescapable part of our mission.’ – Gina Haspel

‘What I learned from 9/11 that is really important, first and foremost, you have to motivate all the workers and understand that they’ve left their families to help clean up a pretty awful situation. Every time you have an emergency management situation, it’s all about teamwork.’ – Joe Lhota

‘To succeed in hockey, you need teamwork.’ – Henry Samueli

‘For organizations seriously committed to making teamwork a cultural reality, I’m convinced that ‘the right people’ are the ones who have three virtues in common – humility, hunger, and people smarts.’ – Patrick Lencioni

‘We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart’s desire their technological capacity.’ – Akio Morita

‘We’ll have a sales leader go run engineering. A lawyer go run business development. A business development leader go run our consumer operations. We’re going to train a generalist group of leaders who know how to learn and operate in collaboration teamwork. I think that’s the future of leadership.’ – John T. Chambers

‘I’m a true believer in the strength of teamwork, in the power of dreams.’ – Julie Payette

‘I enjoy being a singles guy. I enjoy commanding the stage with myself and an opponent. It’s a different process when you’re teammates. Especially with the way we work. We’re very unselfish with how we work together in so many different regards. Not just what you see as the final product of the match. Just strategizing, psychology, teamwork.’ – Roman Reigns

‘We’ll continue to expand our footprint… Oracle’s Fusion cloud applications for HCM, CRM and ERP all have a new simplified user interface and an integrated social network that makes our enterprise applications as easy-to-use and familiar as Facebook, while enabling better collaboration and teamwork among your employees and your customers.’ – Larry Ellison

‘Together with Adobe, we’re committed to fostering creativity and a culture of teamwork for our shared customers so they can unlock the opportunities of today’s rapidly evolving workplace.’ – Peggy Johnson

‘A successful marriage requires commitment to teamwork.’ – Gad Saad

‘A lot of the values I have come from the farm and from my parents, of grafting and of giving, and of always striving to be the best you can be. It’s about teamwork.’ – Beauden Barrett

‘There’s a tipping point that happens with soccer in which you just kinda get it. I was drawn to it because the best soccer teams play similarly to my favorite basketball teams – like the eighties Lakers or eighties Celtics – teams that emphasized teamwork over individualism and relied on passing as their biggest ongoing edge.’ – Bill Simmons

‘On or off the field, practice and teamwork are the key to success.’ – Malcolm Jenkins

‘Service people are capable. They gain world-class professional skills while in uniform. They use those skills in the most challenging places, showing the kind of teamwork and leadership most of us can only dream of.’ – Anna Soubry

‘Sport has taught me never to be jealous of someone or insecure if somebody is doing well. It’s taught me teamwork and the value of patience. Even If I lose, I know that I’ve actually not lost.’ – Ritika Singh

‘As a young girl, football is where I met the people who, to this day, are my best friends. It is also where I began to learn about the important relationship between hard work, teamwork, and fun.’ – Ali Krieger

‘I was 25 when I stopped racing, I loved the teamwork and I wanted to apply what I knew about it into building and running a team.’ – Christian Horner

‘Whether we’re talking about leadership, teamwork, or client service, there is no more powerful attribute than the ability to be genuinely honest about one’s weaknesses, mistakes, and needs for help.’ – Patrick Lencioni

‘As a retired football coach, I know a good bit about teamwork and winning.’ – Tommy Tuberville

‘How did we cure polio, smallpox and send a man to the moon? How did we decode the human genome in just 13 years? Collaboration. Focus on a specific goal, and teamwork.’ – Margaret Cuomo

‘Playing basketball taught me the value of determination and teamwork.’ – Vlade Divac

‘Teamwork is better than isolation, especially for a columnist.’ – Allan Sloan

‘I have never understood that. I come from a place where the press makes or breaks an actor and it is more of a teamwork relationship.’ – Michelle Trachtenberg

‘Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.’ – Daley Thompson

‘Road racing at the moment because it’s still so new to me. I like the fact that they are longer and teamwork is important. I guess the same is true for track, it’s just that I have used track this year as a training device to improve my sprinting in road racing.’ – Mark-Paul Gosselaar

‘Teamwork was more accepted 40 years ago.’ – Ken Olsen

‘Journalists prize independence – not teamwork.’ – Ken Auletta

‘The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you’re going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.’ – Carl Lewis

‘I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character – teaches people about leadership and cooperation.’ – Mo Rocca

‘I’m definitely one of those actresses who comes to a set knowing how I want to do a scene, and I definitely love input from my directors and my writers. I know that there’s some actors who like to be left alone, they like to be very independent, but I actually really enjoy the teamwork.’ – Summer Glau

‘The Grateful Dead, they’re my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creativity, imagination, celebration, the dance, the vision, the purpose, the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world.’ – Bill Walton

‘I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.’ – Bill Walton

‘In the United States, we spend millions of dollars on sports because it promotes teamwork, discipline, and the experience of learning to make great progress in small increments. Learning to play music does all this and more.’ – Linda Ronstadt

‘As a father, I believe that involving children in sports at a young age is generally, a wise proposition. I believe that healthy competition is… well… healthy; that sporting events foster a spirit of teamwork that far surpasses the events themselves; and that active participation keeps children moving and is good for their self-esteem.’ – Naveen Jain

‘Growing up in a group home, and with an undiagnosed learning disability to boot, the odds of success were not on my side. But when I joined the high school football team, I learned the value of discipline, focus, persistence, and teamwork – all skills that have proven vital to my career as a C.E.O. and social entrepreneur.’ – Darell Hammond

‘I never went to college. But the structure I grew up with was planted so deep that when it came to doing business, I knew how to be disciplined, create teamwork, and persevere. It set me up to be an entrepreneur and a successful franchiser.’ – Anne F. Beiler

‘You can talk about teamwork on a baseball team, but I’ll tell you, it takes teamwork when you have 2,900 men stationed on the U.S.S. Alabama in the South Pacific.’ – Bob Feller

”Million Dollar Arm’ touches on many of the Safe At Home Foundation’s core values, such as children, teamwork and family.’ – Joe Torre

‘I know when I have kids, when I’m older, I’m going to encourage them to play sports because I think it teaches you a lot. It teaches you discipline, teamwork, and that there’s really no ‘I’ in team.’ – Gregg Sulkin

‘I’ve always valued and encouraged teamwork, and that collaborative spirit of we versus I is core to Intuit’s success. Innovation has been part of Intuit’s DNA for nearly 30 years.’ – Brad D. Smith

‘Despite the increasingly presidential style of political leadership in our country, teamwork is essential.’ – Bob Ainsworth

‘It’s hard to find good teamwork in practice, and I have never thought that we, as a party, were any better at working as a team than the Tories, despite our core values.’ – Bob Ainsworth

‘We want people that fit in our locker room. As I said, it’s all about teamwork.’ – Bob McNair

‘As young Australians, the value of teamwork has been instilled in us throughout our schooling.’ – Alexandra Adornetto

‘I operated a periscopic TV camera so the commander, Anatoly Artsebarsky, could establish where we were heading. It is real teamwork on Soyuz.’ – Helen Sharman

‘The thing I really love about film is there’s a really big sense of teamwork, and everyone has to do their job to the best of their ability to make the film work in the first place.’ – Sarah Snook

‘As governor, I will always be willing to work with people who have ideas to offer and are ready to roll up their sleeves. That kind of teamwork will build a New Hampshire that will lead the nation and compete with the world. Together, we will help our businesses grow and build a stronger economy on a vision of innovation and growth.’ – Maggie Hassan

‘I’ve always played sport, ever since I was little. I played volleyball and I believe sport teaches you a lot, such as teamwork, respect and discipline.’ – Gisele Bundchen

‘Young kids should probably not play tackle football. I know this intellectually, but emotionally, I’m conflicted. I love this sport. I grew up playing and adoring football. I love the brotherhood, teamwork, athletic grace that borders on superhuman, grit, pressure and, yes, contact. I love the contact.’ – Peter Berg

‘For running a country, team work is important, and the person at the helm has to enjoy teamwork.’ – Sharad Pawar

‘In that portion of time where my parents were together, I got to see great love, great loyalty, and teamwork.’ – Kimberly Guilfoyle

‘Today’s world requires a different leadership style – more collaboration and teamwork, including using Web 2.0 technologies. If you had told me I’d be video blogging and blogging, I would have said, ‘No way.’ And yet our 20-somethings in the company really pushed me to use that more.’ – John T. Chambers

‘That whole concept of team and teamwork and team first – that’s how Israel, in my opinion, has survived in the Middle East.’ – Robert Kraft

‘What’s amazing is that so many leaders who value teamwork will tolerate people who aren’t humble. They reluctantly hire self-centred people and then justify it because those people have desired skills.’ – Patrick Lencioni

‘The era of roadside decisions, declarations have gone. My government’s decisions will be guided by teamwork and consultations.’ – Mwai Kibaki

‘I do believe in teamwork, and I think it’s very important, especially for a woman, because if you don’t have a good team, then you cannot step out if you need to.’ – Arundhati Bhattacharya

‘My role at Lockheed Martin puts me in contact with extraordinary leaders in many fields – from science and engineering to philanthropy and government. And since we also work closely with our nation’s armed forces, we tend to reflect a lot on leadership and how we can inspire successful teamwork, cooperation, and partnerships.’ – Marillyn Hewson

‘As a former NCAA basketball player, many of the skills I now rely on as a leader took root on the basketball court: teamwork, integrity, and resilience are just some of the traits I’ve carried over into my professional game.’ – Cathy Engelbert

‘Most youth are lacking critical life skills that make them employable and, most importantly, able to keep a job – things like teamwork, decision-making, and time management.’ – Stephen A. Schwarzman

‘The element of teamwork is perhaps underappreciated.’ – Stewart Butterfield

‘Military veterans have unique skills, experience, and qualifications that are invaluable to today’s workforce, including teamwork and leadership skills, the proven ability to learn quickly, a strong work ethic, dedication, and the ability to work under pressure.’ – Tae Yoo

‘Folks who blithely disregard the benefits of football likely haven’t played or are being intellectually dishonest. The game, perhaps more than any other, requires absolute dedication and teamwork. Yes, I ultimately quit, and if I ever have a son, he won’t play, but I’ll always cherish the lessons I learned from football.’ – Chris Borland

‘The sense of acting being teamwork was a mentality that I took from school: I studied with wonderful people, and I wanted them to be proud of me.’ – Susan Lucci

‘Teamwork is the best kind of work, really.’ – Sigrid

‘I’ve been in charge all my damn life, but executive producing is teamwork. You’re involved with every aspect of the production, from casting to locations, everything.’ – Jenifer Lewis

‘In sport, you only see the fighter, but it’s teamwork. Without a good team, you will never be the best. In boxing, you have to work with the best coach, the best lawyer, the best manager, the best doctor. Exactly the same principle applies in politics.’ – Vitali Klitschko

‘It’s great for people who like the teamwork and that also like the commando style, and that’s why I think ‘Call of Duty’ is so successful.’ – Karl-Anthony Towns

‘It’s true: teamwork makes the dream work.’ – Natalya Neidhart

‘As a punt returner in the NFL, I know all about teamwork, high-speeds, and collisions on Sundays.’ – Julian Edelman

‘Lee Min Ho is a very cool guy, and I had a great teamwork with him as well.’ – Park Shin-hye

‘What you do is build your team around your core. Some teams have one main guy – not many, but some do – and you build around that. If you have a bunch of good players, that’s another way to go about it – through depth, teamwork, defense, and fundamentals.’ – Chris Mullin

‘I wanted to be a veterinarian and go to school in Boston. It didn’t quite work out that way, and I ended up joining the Navy as a suggestion of my big brother. It was really awesome – and I didn’t realize it at the time, -but provided a lot of leadership and followership teamwork opportunities.’ – Sunita Williams

‘A space nerd as a kid, I learned early that putting a man on the moon took American unity, grit, determination, teamwork, hardship, innovation, sacrifice and patriotism.’ – Katie Pavlich

‘Teamwork is a significant part of ‘Counter-Strike: Condition Zero’ and many of the secondary objectives require you to effectively work with your squad.’ – Randy Pitchford

‘The arts are the most uniquely suited to provide young people with critical-thinking skills, problem-solving, teamwork and collaboration, empathy and tolerance and compassion, looking at the other point of views.’ – Emma Walton Hamilton

‘Football is one of the most popular sports in the country, and there are many reasons for this. You can take so much from football and apply it to life in general. Just some of those things are goal-setting, preparation, teamwork, perseverance and discipline.’ – Philip Rivers

‘I love filming. I love the teamwork. It’s a tight-knit group spending months on the road together. All the experience is shared.’ – Monty Don

‘We’re trying to give a young man life lessons – sacrifice, commitment, teamwork, self-confidence, self-esteem. That’s what this sport does for kids.’ – Bill Cowher

‘As an NFL rookie, I had to buy meals for older guys. I appreciate hierarchy. I understand teamwork.’ – Myron Rolle

‘Football is teamwork, unity, defence, assists, sacrifice.’ – Philipp Lahm

‘The Microfinance segment is a challenging client servicing space and thus requires a great amount of dedication, integrity and teamwork.’ – Ananya Birla

‘In Dutch football you see a lot of individual quality, but in American football it’s really about teamwork. That really appeals to me.’ – Sergino Dest

‘We have a special and strong teamwork because we trained together as teenagers and have grown together since then. Now, we can just look one another in the eye and know immediately what they need or how they feel.’ – Jennie

‘The cognitive development of the players is enormously important, as well as social competence and character values such as discipline and teamwork.’ – Joachim Low

‘A lot of my pieces have involved teamwork, but hopefully they’ve inspired people to make things – that inspiration would be a great legacy.’ – David Linley

‘Different strikers are happy when they score but you have to think about the team – the assist and movements which can give space for your team mates. You can never quit. It’s teamwork.’ – Raul Jimenez

‘There is a huge amount of teamwork that is involved in the project which makes ‘Bishprantar’ extra special and very close to my heart.’ – Saswata Chatterjee

‘Teamwork is very important. A music label who has that kind of knowledge is very, very important for the artist to grow on that level. Otherwise, all the artists get into that zone of doing things themselves, sometimes the song works, sometimes it doesn’t.’ – Bhushan Kumar

‘Here’s what I think is good about ‘Ted Lasso’ and what I’m proud of in it, as a writer: It’s about kindness and teamwork and empathy, and being curious and not judgmental, but it does all of that through storytelling and plot.’ – Brett Goldstein

‘A lot of guys came in after me and they quit before me. I’ve seen that a lot. That’s motivation. That’s teamwork, I don’t do that myself.’ – Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira

‘Survivor Series is all about teamwork.’ – Bianca Belair

‘Our Armed Forces are built upon unity and teamwork, but intersectional philosophy depends on dividing people into warring victim groups.’ – Lauren Boebert

‘On the fourth Thursday in August, my neighbors and I cordon off the ends of our block and take over the street for an evening. The annual Augustus Ave. block party is an exercise in teamwork and deep democracy.’ – Michelle Wu

‘You should be able to showcase technology in Formula One, which is about teamwork, about sharing information.’ – David Coulthard

‘Playing football helped me to gain self-discipline, confidence, negotiation skills, teamwork and leadership.’ – Marcel Desailly

‘I always learn from my co-actor and give my hundred per cent to my character. It’s totally teamwork which makes not only a film but yourself better.’ – Sanjay Mishra