These inspiring team quotes can help you achieve goals that might be impossible for you to imagine doing in isolation. Whether it’s in sports, science, or everyday life, teamwork is what helps you achieve success and simplify life.
As an individual, you will notice significant improvements in yourself when you work as part of a team that is focused on a specific goal. Some of the biggest discoveries and achievements in history are a result of teamwork. Even the greatest achievers have been successful because they had a team working alongside them.
Motivational insights have the power to instill the spirit of camaraderie in anyone’s heart. Read them and share them with friends, colleagues, and teammates. Teamwork makes the dream work.
You may also enjoy our Ted Lasso quotes and our Never Give Up sayings.
Quotes About Team
1.) Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other’s funds of collective intelligence.
Mike Schmoker
2.) Definition of a great teammate: a person who makes their teammates look great.
Emily Kohibus
3.) I am a member of the 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
4.) My teammates, they put me on their backs, and they wouldn’t let me down.
Jerome Bettis
Best Team Quotes
5.) Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
Andrew Carnegie
6.) We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly.
Bill Bradley
7.) The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.
Kobe Bryant
8.) Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.
Patrick Lencioni
9.) Good teams incorporate teamwork into their culture, creating the building blocks for success.
Ted Sundquist
10.) I invite everyone to choose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.
Jean-Francois Cope
11.) Unity is strength. When there are teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.
Mattie Stepanek
12.) If I miss anything about the sport, it’s the camaraderie of teammates.
Bo Jackson – Check out Bo Jackson on Twitter
Best Teamwork Quotes
13.) If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
Henry Ford
14.) Encourage your people to be committed to a project rather than just be involved in it.
Richard Pratt
15.) Commitment is the enemy of resistance, for it is the serious promise to press on, to get up, no matter how many times you are knocked down.
David McNally
16.) The kind of commitment I find among the best performers across virtually every field is a single-minded passion for what they do, an unwavering desire for excellence in the way they think and the way they work.
Jim Collins
17.) With an enthusiastic team, you can achieve almost anything.
Tahir Shah
Funny Team Quotes
18.) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
Lewis Grizzard
19.) Teamwork is essential – it allows you to blame someone else.
Unknown
20.) Individuals can and do make a difference, but it takes a team to really mess things up.
Unknown
Espirit de Corps Quotations
21.) No individual can win a game by himself.
Pele
22.) Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is a success.
Henry Ford
23.) Most achievements in science are to a certain degree of a group effort.
Willard Libby
24.) Both group effort and individual testimony flow from conviction as to the role of people on earth.
Gilbert F. White
25.) The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
Vince Lombardi
Synergy Sayings
26.) Team spirit elevates with a broad-based contribution to the group effort. It’s especially important for the high-performing leader to avoid the situation of one or two people being the only contributors during a meeting.
Andrew J. Dubrin
27.) It’s been such a group effort. When you’re a new band, and you have limited resources, you end up getting people that are there because they love what you do, and that’s great.
Balthazar Getty
28.) The cast, staff, and crew of a live theater work together toward a common goal: a good performance. Thus, the theater is necessarily a group effort.
Laurence Sterne
29.) When you work in TV, it’s such a group effort; it’s not about you.
Kylie Minogue
30.) When we have the confidence that we can orchestrate the group effort required to realize them, we dare bigger dreams.
Justin Rosenstein
31.) I think even if you’re on a screen or you’re in a play, it’s always a group effort. It’s not just the actors; it’s the editor.
Stockard Channing
Collaboration Makes All The Difference
32.) The strength of the team is each member. The strength of each member is the team.
Phil Jackson
33.) Ask not what your teammates can do for you but what you can do for your teammates.
Magic Johnson
34.) I’ve worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down, and I will not let myself down.
Mia Hamm
35.) I really believe the only thing you can control in those situations is what you do as a player but also how you interact with your teammates, which is critical.
Brian Griese
36.) I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me, whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal in a hockey game.
Wayne Gretzky
37.) Being there every week for my teammates is really important to me. It’s about accountability.
Peyton Manning
Micheal Jordan Team Quotes
38.) Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, and others make it happen.
Michael Jordan
39.) Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.
Michael Jordan
40.) If you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves.
Michael Jordan
Motivational Insights on Teams
41.) The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.
Phil Jackson
42.) Teams are incredible things. No task is too great, no accomplishment too grand, no dream too far-fetched for a team. It takes teamwork to make the dream work.
John Maxwell
43.) Individual commitment to a group effort — that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Vince Lombardi
44.) The nicest thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.
Margaret Carty
45.) None of us is as smart as all of us.
Ken Blanchard
46.) If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
African Proverb
47.) Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.
Pat Riley
49.) The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
John Wooden
Motivational Team Quotes
50.) There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.
George Shinn
51.) 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
52.) It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) that those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
Charles Darwin
53.) None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.
Mother Teresa
54.) Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal.
Patrick Lencioni
55.) To build a strong team, you must see someone else’s strength as a complement to your weakness and not a threat to your position or authority.
Christine Caine
56.) The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work.
Vince Lombardi, Jr.
Inspirational Teamwork Quotes
57.) No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy is, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.
Reid Hoffman
58.) Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.
Steve Jobs
59.) Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life forever.
Amy Poehler
60.) The ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team.
Lewis B. Ergen
61.) The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.
James Cash Penny
62.) Teamwork is the secret that makes common people achieve uncommon results.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
63.) When you hand good people possibility, they do great things.
Biz Stone
Short Teamwork Quotes
64.) Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.
Kenyan Proverb
65.) If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
Isaac Newton
66.) In teamwork, silence isn’t golden; it’s deadly.
Mark Sanborn
67.) It takes two flints to make a fire.
Louisa May Alcott
68.) Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.
Virginia Burden
69.) Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
Edwin Land
70.) Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.
Ryunosuke Satoro, Japanese author.
71.) No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.
Halford E. Luccock
Teamwork Quotes to Inspire
72.) Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
73.) The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first.
Iyanla Vanzant
74.) I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I sure can pick smart colleagues.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
75.) Strategy is not a solo sport, even if you’re the CEO.
Max McKeown
76.) You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins.
Jim Stovall
77.) Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.
James Cash Penney
78.) A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of others.
Norman Shidle
79.) A single leaf working alone provides no shade.
Chuck Page
80.) There is immense power when a group of people with similar interests gets together to work toward the same goals.
Idowu Koyenikan
Team Collaboration Quotes
81.) To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.
Mike Krzyzewski
82.) No problem is insurmountable; with a little courage, teamwork, and determination, a can overcome anything.
Unknown
83.) Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation, and consensus.
Simon Mainwaring
84.) Together, ordinary people can achieve extraordinary results.
Becka Schoettle
85.) Why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust, and trust builds speed.
Russel Honore, Retired US Army lieutenant
86.) Only by binding together as a single force will we remain strong and unconquerable.
Chris Bradford
87.) The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
Lee Iacocca
88.) Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
Malcolm Forbes
89.) Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
John Rockefeller
90.) The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I’d made my teammates play.
Bill Russell
91.) A team is not made up of isolated individuals. Always stay in the game. Don’t be passive. Football is a team game. No one plays alone. Success depends on your whole team being a single unit.
Pele
Unity Sayings
92.) I’m lucky to be part of a team who helps to make me look good, and they deserve as much of the credit for my success as I do for the hard work we have all put in on the training ground.
Lionel Messi
93.) Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.
Bill Walton
94.) The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.
Babe Ruth
95.) The team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.
Mia Hamm
96.) The key to teamwork is to learn a role, accept a role, and strive to become excellent playing it.
Pat Riley
97.) Football is an honest game. It’s true to life. It’s a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life.
Joe Namath
98.) 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
Unselfishness
99.) Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.
Bill Russell
100.) To me, football is so much about mental toughness; it’s digging deep, it’s doing whatever you need to do to help a team win, and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.
Tom Brady
101.) In basketball, you can be the greatest individual player in the world and still lose every game because a team will always beat an individual.
Bill Walton
102.) I think that from the time you start playing sports as a child, you see that your responsibility to your team is to play the best that you can play as an individual and yet, not take anything away from being part of a team.
Wayne Gretzky
By Mike O’Halloran
Mike is the author of 3 basketball books and publisher of Sports Feel Good Stories.
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