There is no "I" in "TEAMWORK".
Teamwork: Simply stated, it is less me and more we.
TEAM = Together Everyone Achieves More
Andrew Carnegie 
 Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
Unknown 
 The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
Unknown 
 Teamwork is working together — even when apart.
Unknown 
 A job worth doing is worth doing together.
Unknown 
 Coming together, sharing together, working together, succeeding together.
Unknown 
 A successful team beats with one heart.
Unknown
Teamwork divides the task and doubles the success.
Unknown 
 Teamwork doesn't tolerate the inconvenience of distance.
Ken Blanchard 
 None of us is as smart as all of us.
Vince Lombardi (1913-1970), football coach for the NFL 
 People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society."
Henry Ford 
 Coming together is a beginning.
Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success.
Bruce Coslet, Coach, Bengals 
 The era of the rugged individual is giving way to the era of the team player.
Everyone is needed, but no one is necessary.
Vince Lombardi (1913-1970), football coach for the NFL 
 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…
Susan Gerke, IBM, Leadership Development 
 Conflict is inevitable in a team ... in fact, to achieve synergistic solutions, a variety of ideas and approaches are needed. These are the ingredients for conflict.
Coach Dean Smith to Michael Jordan in his freshman year at UNC 
 Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play.
Benjamin Franklin 
 We must all hang together, 
 or assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
Thomas Edison, when asked why he had a team of twenty-one assistants: 
 If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.
Lewis B. Ergen
The ratio of We's to I's is the best indicator of the development of a team.
Stephen Covey 
 Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people.
Max DePree 
 The key elements in the art of working together are how to deal with change, how to deal with conflict, and how to reach our potential...the needs of the team are best met when we meet the needs of individuals persons.
R. Meredith Belbin 
 Do you want a collection of brilliant minds or a brilliant collection of minds?
Baltasar Gracion, Spanish Priest 
 The path to greatness is along with others.
Doug Smith 
 Teams share the burden and divide the grief.
Tom Bouchard 
 Teams are successful when they are focused, have a short cycle time, and are supported by the executives.
Coach Phil Jackson Chicago Bulls 
 The strength of the team is each individual member...the strength of each member is the team.
Norman Shidle 
 A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of the others.
Robert F. Bales 
 Effective teamwork will not take the place of knowing how to do the job or how to manage the work. Poor teamwork, however, can prevent effective final performance. And it can also prevent team members from gaining satisfaction in being a member of a team and the organization.
Dennis Kinlaw 
 Teamplayer: One who unites others toward a shared destiny through sharing information and ideas, empowering others and developing trust.
Buchholz and
Roth 
 Wearing the same shirts doesn't make you a team 
 
 Jason Kidd upon being drafted to the Dallas
Mavericks 
 We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.
Buchholz and Roth 
 Synergism is the simultaneous actions of separate entities which together have greater total effect than the sum of their individual effects.
Casey Stengel 
 Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.
Katzenbach & Smith 
 A demanding performance challenge tends to create a team.
Marvin Weisbord 
 Teamwork is the quintessential contradiction of a society grounded in individual achievement.
Will Schutz 
 Team members who feel

threatened but who are not aware of it become rigid — and that stops teamwork.
Barbara Glacel & Emile Robert Jr.
A team is more than a collection of people. It is a process of give and take.
Mark Twain 
 Synergy — the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.
Ned Lautenbach 
 Teamwork is the lynchpin in our long term success.
Michael Jordan 
 Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
Joe
Paterno 
 When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
A self-reinforcing upward spiral: performance stimulating pride stimulating performance.
Max DePree 
 Without forgiveness, there can be no real freedom to act within a group.
Katzenbach & Smith 
 The same dynamics that promote performance also support learning and behavioral change.
Dennis Kinlaw 
 Work and self-worth are the two factors in pride that interact with each other and that tend to increase the strong sense of pride found in superior work teams. When people do something of obvious worth, they feel a strong sense of personal worth.
Dr. Rob Gilbert 
 Working together works.
H.E. Luccock 
 No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it.
Richard Wellins, William Byham, Jeanne Wilson 
 Teams are not ends in themselves; they are a means by which to achieve other organizational goals.
Sandra Richardson, OD Consultant 
 Effective teamwork is all about making a good, well-balanced salad not whipping individuals into a single batch of V8.
Reinhold Niebuhr 
 Men have never been individually self-sufficient.
Douglas McGregor 
 Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.
Katzenbach & Smith 
 Overcoming barriers to performance is how groups become teams.
Paul McCartney 
 I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity... to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.
Benjamin Franklin 
 We must indeed all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
Lou Holtz, former Notre Dame football coach 
 All winning teams are goal-oriented. Teams like these win consistently because everyone connected with them concentrates on specific objectives. They go about their business with blinders on; nothing will distract them from achieving their aims.
Paul Bear Bryant 
 In order to have a winner, the team must have a feeling of unity; every player must put the team firstahead of personal glory.
Bud Wilkinson, football coach (1916 ) 
 If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.
Vince Lombardi (1913-1970), football coach for the NFL 
 Individual commitment to a group effort — that is what makes a team work a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Katzenbach & Smith 
 Teamwork represents a set of values that encourage behaviors such as listening and constructively responding to points of view expressed by others, giving others the benefit of the doubt, providing support to those who need it, and recognizing the interests and achievements of others.
Vince Lombardi, football coach for the NFL (1913-1970) 
 The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
Robert Yates 
 It is amazing what can be accomplished when nobody cares about who gets the credit.
Margaret Carty 
 The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.
A Harvey Block 
 The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original. They are rarely useful. The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.
Katzenbach & Smith 
 Fun is only real and sustainable if it feeds off the team's purpose and performance aspirations.
Vince Lombardi, football coach for the NFL (1913-1970) 
 Individual commitment to a group effort-that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Robert Crandall 
 You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.
B. Dodge 
 No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.
Dr. Allan Fromme 
 People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.
Debra Mancuso 
 Win together, lose together, play together, stay together.
Katzenbach & Smith 
 Real teams don't emerge unless individuals on them take risks involving conflict, trust, interdependence and hard work.

Vince Lombardi (1913-1970), football coach for the NFL 
 Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.
Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success. ~Author Unknown
No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it. ~H.E. Luccock
Teamwork is the ability to work as a group toward a common vision, even if that vision becomes extremely blurry.
~Author Unknown
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. ~Vince Lombardi
The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side. ~Margaret Carty
Many hands make light work. ~John Heywood
One piece of log creates a small fire, adequate to warm you up, add just a few more pieces to blast an immense bonfire, large enough to warm up your entire circle of friends; needless to say that individuality counts but team work dynamites.
~Jin Kwon
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. ~John Donne
Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there. ~Virginia Burden
Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. ~Kenyan Proverb
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. ~Henry Ford
None of us is as smart as all of us. ~Ken Blanchard
It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn't matter who gets the credit. ~Author Unknown 
 
 
 Team means Together Everyone Achieves More! ~Author Unknown
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishment toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results. ~Andrew Carnegie
Regardless of differences, we strive shoulder to shoulder... [T]eamwork can be summed up in five short words: "We believe in each other." ~Author Unknown
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. ~Author Unknown
Contrary to popular belief, there most certainly is an "I" in "team." It is the same "I" that appears three times in
"responsibility." ~Amber Harding
We must all hang together or most assuredly we shall hang separately. ~Benjamin Franklin
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. ~Margaret Meade
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime. ~Babe Ruth
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. ~Henry Ford
Teamwork is essential - it allows you to blame someone else. ~Author Unknown
The ratio of We's to I's is the best indicator of the development of a team. ~Lewis B. Ergen
Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. ~Bill
Bradley
I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion. ~Mia Hamm
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
No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
A snowflake is one of God's most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick together! ~Author
Unknown
In union there is strength. ~Aesop
Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all. ~Alexander the Great
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of the others. ~Norman Shidle
Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part. ~Casey Stengel
It is a fact that in the right formation, the lifting power of many wings can achieve twice the distance of any bird flying alone. ~Author Unknown

"Many hands make light work. " ~ John Heywood
"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. " ~ Henry Ford
"Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success. " ~ Unknown
"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. " ~ Michael Jordan
"It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn't matter who gets the credit. " ~ Unknown
"Contrary to popular belief, there most certainly is an "I" in "team." It is the same "I" that appears three times in
"responsibility." " ~ Amber Harding
"No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing. " ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stephen Covey 
 Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.
Vincent Lombardi
Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.
Andrew Carnegie
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
Vincent Lombardi 
 The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
Theodore Roosevelt 
 The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Napoleon Hill 
 The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Henry Ford 
 There is one rule for industrialists and that is: make the best quality goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
Ralph Waldo Emerson 
 Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
Henry Ford 
 Why should I clutter my mind with general information when I have men around me who can supply any knowledge I need?
1. Many hands make light work. - John Heywood
2. Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. - Henry Ford
3. Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success. - Unknown
4. Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. - Helen Keller
5. Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. - Kenyan Proverb
6. It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed. - Napoleon Hill
7. Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has. -
Margaret Mead
8. Teamwork is the ability to work as a group toward a common vision, even if that vision becomes extremely blurry. -
Author Unknown
9. The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side. - Margaret Carty
10. Team means Together Everyone Achieves More! - Author Unknown
11. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. - Author Unknown
12. If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. - Henry Ford
13. A job worth doing is worth doing together. - Author Unknown
14. Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play. - Coach Dean Smith to Michael Jordan in his freshman year at UNC
15. If I could solve all the problems myself, I would. - Thomas Edison, when asked why he had a team of twenty-one assistants.
16. Individually, we are one drop. Together we are an ocean. - Ryunosuke Satoro
17. Let your dreams outgrow the shoes of your expectations. - Ryunosuke Satoro
18. If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. - Isaac Newton
19. The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think
'team'. - Tom Peters
Commitment to the team - there is no such thing as in-between, you are either in our out.
-- Pat Riley
I have seen that in any great undertaking, it is not enough for a man to depend simply upon himself.
-- Lone Man
The main ingredient in stardom is the rest of the team.
-- Source Unknown
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
-- Calvin Coolidige
The one man team is a complete and total myth.
-- Don Shula
One finger cannot lift a pebble.
-- Hopi Saying

Team guts always beat individual greatness.
-- Bob Zuppke
Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.
-- Bart Starr
What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
-- Henry Ward Beecher
I've never known anyone so loyal. If you are Larry Bird's teammate, you are one of the most important people in the world to him.
-- Kevin McHale
Good guys are a dime a dozen, but an aggressive leader is priceless.
-- Red Blaik
The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders.
-- Vince Lombardi
Make the present good, and the past will take care of itself.
-- Knute Rockne
If you are going to be a champion, you must be willing to pay a greater price.
-- Bud Wilkinson
Success is about having, excellence is about being. Success is about having money and fame, but excellence is being the best you can be.
-- Mike Ditka
You can motivate players better with kind words than you can with a whip.
-- Bud Wilkinson
It ain't what you eat but how you chew it.
-- Delbert McClinton
The Six W's: Work will win when wishing won't.
-- Todd Blackledge
If you sacrifice early, you'll win late.
-- Charles Haley
The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing it exactly right.
-- Edward C. Simmons
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
-- Vince Lombardi
You can't make a great play unless you do it first in practice.
-- Chuck Noll
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.
-- Satchel Paige
Things that hurt, instruct.
-- Benjamin Franklin
Sweet are the uses of adversity.
-- William Shakespeare
It isn't hard to be good from time to time insports. What is tough, is being good every day.
-- Willie Mays
The sterner the discipline, the greater the devotion.
-- Pete Carill
Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.
-- Thomas Carlyle
He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
-- Source Unknown
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Adversity causes some men to break, and others to break records.
-- Source Unknown
Difficulties in live are intended to make us better, not bitter.
-- Dan Reeves
Happiness, I have discovered, is nearly always a rebound from hard work.
-- David Grayson
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can do.
-- Lin Yutang
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them. But do not let them master you.
-- Hellen Keller
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
-- Source Unknown
Ingenuity plus courage plus work equals miracles.
-- Bob Richards
Coaching is not a natural way of life. Your victories and losses are too clear cut.
-- Tommy Prothro
Make sure that team members know they are working with you, not for you.
-- John Wooden
Leadership, like coaching, is fighting for the hearts and souls of men and getting them to believe in you.
-- Eddie
Robinson
Coaching is a profession of love. You can't coach people unless you love them.
-- Eddie Robinson
What makes a good coach? Complete dedication.
-- George Halas
A successful coach needs a patient wife, loyal dog, and great quarterback - and not necessarily in that order.
-- Bud
Grant
I'd rather be a football coach. That way you can lose only 11 games a season. I lost 11 games in December alone!
--
Abe Lemons
The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
-- Tom Landry
Overcoaching is the worst thing you can do to a player.
-- Dean Smith
It's a very bad thing to become accustomed to good luck.
-- Publilius Syrus
I learn teaching from teachers. I learn golf from golfers. I learn winning from coaches.
-- Harvey Penick
In a crisis, don't hide behind anything or anybody. They are going to find you anyway.
-- Bear Bryant
You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting

thing is self motivation.
-- Homer Rice
My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team.
-- Don
Shula
Either love your players or get out of coaching.
-- Bobby Dodd
Bear Bryant could take his'n and beat your'n, or he could take your'n and beat his'n.
-- Bum Phillips
I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.
-- Abe Lemons
The critic is one who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde
Fault finding is like window washing. All the dirt seems to be on the other side.
-- Source Unknown
When I play, I'm boiling inside. I just try not to show it because it's a lack of composure, and if you give in to your emotions after one loss, you're liable to have three or four in a row.
-- Chirs Evert
There is no room in your mind for negative thoughts. The busier you keep yourself with the particulars of shot assessment and execution, the less chance your mind has to dwell on the emotional. This is sheer intensity.
-- Jack
Nicklaus
In the end, the game comes down to one thing: man against man. May the best man win.
-- Sam Huff
When they treat you bad, you just got to take care of your pride, no matter what.
-- Satchel Paige
I celebrate a victory when I start walking off the field. By the time I get to the locker room, I'm done.
-- Tom Osborne
You are never really playing an opponent. You are playing yourself, your own highest standards, and when you reach your limits, that is real joy.
-- Arthur Ashe
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon
New Orleans Saint RB George Rogers when asked about the upcoming season: "I want to rush for 1,000 or 1,500 yards, whichever comes first. "
Chicago Cubs outfielder Andre Dawson on being a role model: "I want all the kids to do what I do, to look up to me. I want all the kids to copulate me."
And, upon hearing Joe Jacobi of the Skins say: "I'd run over my own mother to win the Super Bowl,"
Matt Millen of the Raiders said, "To win, I'd run over Joe's Mom, too. "
Football commentator and former player Joe Theismann: "Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein. "
Senior basketball player at the University of Pittsburgh: "I'm going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes. "
Bill Peterson, a Florida State football coach: "You guys line up alphabetically by height. " and "You guys pair up in groups of three, then line up in a circle. "
Clemson recruit Ray Forsythe, who was ineligible as a freshman because of academic requirements: "I play football. I'm not trying to be a professor. The tests don't seem to make sense to me, measuring your brain on stuff I haven't been through in school. "
Boxing promoter Dan Duva on Mike Tyson hooking up again with promoter Don King: "Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton. "
Stu Grimson, Chicago Blackhawks left wing, explaining why he keeps a color photo of himself above his locker: "That's so when I forget how to spell my name, I can still find my clothes. "
Shaquille O'Neal on whether he had visited the Pantheon during his visit to Greece: "I can't really remember the names of all the clubs that we went to. "
Shaquille O'Neal, on his lack of championships: "I've won at every level, except college and pro. "
Lou Duva, veteran boxing trainer, on the Spartan training regime of of heavyweight Andrew Golota: "He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning regardless of what time it is. "
Pat Williams, Orlando Magic general manager, on his team's 7-27 record in 1992: "We can't win at home. We can't win on the road. As general manager, I just can't figure out where else to play. "
Chuck Nevitt, North Carolina State basketball player, explaining to Coach Jim Valvano why he appeared nervous at practice: "My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt. "
Tommy Lasorda, Dodger manager, when asked what terms Mexican-born pitching sensation Fernando Valenzuela might settle for in his upcoming contract negotiations: "He wants Texas back. "
Darrell Royal, Texas football coach, asked if the abnormal number of Longhorn injuries that season resulted from poor physical conditioning: "One player was lost because he broke his nose. How do you go about getting a nose in condition for football? "
Mike McCormack, coach of the hapless Baltimore Colts after the team's co-captain, offensive guard Robert Pratt, pulled a hamstring running onto the field for the coin toss against St. Louis: "I'm going to send the injured co-captain out for the toss next time too. "

Steve Spurrier, Florida football coach, telling Gator fans that a fire at Auburn's football dorm had destroyed 20 books: "But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet. "
Jim Finks, New Orleans Saints G. M. , when asked after a loss what he thought of the refs: "I'm not allowed to comment on lousy no good officiating. "
Alan Kulwicki, stock car racer, on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons: "It's basically the same, just darker. "
Lincoln Kennedy, Oakland Raiders tackle, on his decision not to vote: "I was going to write myself in, but I was afraid I'd get shot. "
Frank Layden, Utah Jazz president, on a former player: "I told him, 'Son, what is it with you? Is it ignorance or apathy? '
He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care. '"
Torrin Polk, University of Houston receiver, on his coach, John Jenkins: "He treats us like men. He lets us wear earrings. "
Shelby Metcalf, basketball coach at Texas A&M, recounting what he told a player who received four F's and one D: "Son, looks to me like you're spending too much time on one subject. "
Oiler coach Bum Phillips: When asked by Bob Costas why he takes his wife on all the road trips, responded "Because she is too damn ugly to kiss good-bye. "