Teamwork quotes can help you inspire your team. The challenge for any coach or leader is trying to get a group of people to work together to accomplish the objectives at hand. Check out these team sayings for inspiration and ideas.
Quotes About Teamwork
None of us is as smart as all of us.
Satchel Paige
When he took the time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.
Tibetan Proverb
If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Isaac Newton
In union there is strength.
Aesop
No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.
Michael Jordan
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
On this team, we’re all united in a common goal: to keep my job.
Lou Holtz
The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.
Knute Rockne
It takes both sides to build a bridge.
Fredrik Nael
It’s All About the Team Sayings
TEAM: Together Everyone Achieves More.
Unknown
True leaders don’t create more followers, they create more leaders.
Unknown
It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.
Dwight Eisenhower
Strong alone, unstoppable together.
Unknown
It’s amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn’t matter who gets the credit.
Unknown
Teamwork makes the dream work.
Unknown
Good players inspire themselves; great players inspire others.
Unknown
We must all hang together, or assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
Benjamin Franklin
No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it.
H.E. Luccock
A boat doesn’t go forward if each one is rowing their own way.
Unknown
Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.
Unknown
Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.
Vesta M. Kelly
Individual commitment to a group effort — that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Vince Lombardi
Funny Teamwork Sayings
Teamwork is the ability to work as a group toward a common vision, even if that vision becomes extremely blurry.
Unknown
There’s no “I” in team, but there is in “Win.”
Unknown
A group is a bunch of people in an elevator. A team is also a bunch of people in an elevator, but the elevator is broken!
Bonnie Edelstein
Teamwork – A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction.
Larry Kersten
Teamwork: because bullets can only go through so many bodies.
Unknown
A group becomes a team when each member gains the confidence to talk behind the others’ backs.
Unknown
Sure there’s no “I” in “team,” but there is a “ME”!
Unknown
Inspirational
- It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn’t matter who gets the credit.
Harry S. Truman - Teamwork divides the tasks and multiplies the success.
Unknown - Individuals play the game, but teams beat the odds.
Unknown - If anything goes bad, I did it. Anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That’s all it takes to get people to win football games for you.
Bear Bryant - 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 - Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.
Pat Riley - 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 - Getting good players is easy. Getting ’em to play together is the hard part.
Casey Stengel - The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
John Wooden - Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Helen Keller
On Teams
The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.
Phil Jackson
Teamwork: Simply stated, it is less me and more we.
Unknown
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
Great Team
- There’s nothing greater in the world than when somebody on the team does something good, and everybody gathers around to pat him on the back.
Billy Martin - It takes two flints to make a fire.
Louisa May Alcott - The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.
J.C. Penney
Build Trust
To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.
Mike Krzyzewski
I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character – teaches people about leadership and cooperation.
Mo Rocca
Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.
Ryunosuke Satoro
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
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
Definition of Teamwork
Per Dictionary.com, “1. cooperative or coordinated effort on the part of a group of persons acting together as a team or in the interests of a common cause. 2. work done with a team.“
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Teamwork Quotes to Motivate
- 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.
Andrew Carnegie - Teams that play together beat those with superior players who play more as individuals.
Jack Ramsey - A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.
Unknown
Team Leader
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
African Proverb
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
A team that sweats together sticks together.
Unknown
A successful team is a group of many hands and one mind.
Unknown
Team = Many hands and one mind.
Unknown
Don’t aspire to be the best on the team. Aspire to be the best for the team.
Unknown
There is no “I” in “TEAMWORK.
Unknown
Working success depends not just on you, but on those around you.
Unknown
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
Booker T. Washington
Unity Quotations
- I can’t but we can.
Unknown - Teamwork is how everyday people deliver remarkable goals.
Unknown - We’re a team. End of story.
Unknown - When you’re one of the leaders on a team, there are no days off.
Tom Brady - The ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team.
Lewis B. Ergen - Teamwork. A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction.
Justin Sewell - The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
John Wooden - I can’t, but we can.
Unknown - If serving is below you then leadership is above you.
Unknown - Teamwork divides the tasks and multiplies the success.
Unknown
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