‘We must indeed hang together, or most assuredly, we shall hang separately.’
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
‘A team is only as strong as its weakest link.’
BRIAN CHAPLIN
‘When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft – on the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.’
BO SCHEMBECHLER
‘Getting good players is easy. Getting them to play together is the hard part.’
CASEY STENGEL
‘Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.’
HELEN KELLER
‘Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.’
HENRY FORD
‘Effective team performance does not just happen by chance – it requires commitment to establishing relationships and working practices in which independence is equal, dependence is mutual and accountability is reciprocal.’
JAN CHILDS
‘When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.’
JOE PATERNO
‘It’s the intangibles: commitment, desire, hunger, dedication, unselfishness. A team, group or organisation which is overloaded with the intangibles can often perform a team with more ability. History’ s full of sporting teams that have pulled off upsets because they’ve been loaded with the intangibles.’
JOHN HARBIN
‘Not only did we trust each other, not only did we respect each other, but we gave a damn about the rest of the people on this team. If we saw somebody vulnerable, we were there to help.’
KEN HOEPNER
‘None of us is as smart as all of us.’
KENNETH BLANCHARD
‘Teamwork is a make or break situation. Either you make it work or the lack of it will break you.’
KRIS HIATT
‘There are no problems that we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.’
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
‘The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.’
MARGARET CARTY
‘Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.’
MICHAEL JORDAN
‘A team is a group of people who function together in an extraordinary way – who trust one another, who complement each others’ strengths and compensate for each others’ limitations, who have common goals that are larger than individual goals, and who produce extraordinary results.’
PETER SENGE
‘The challenge for organisations is to develop the culture that harnesses team relationships and encourages individuals to make the emotional connection that makes a real difference.’
RICHARD BRIMBLE
‘It’s amazing what can be accomplished when nobody cares about who gets the credit.’
ROBERT YATES
‘Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilisation work.’
VINCE LOMBARDI
