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. Collaboration, communication, and hard work are essential elements.
Check out these team sayings for inspiration and ideas.
Quotes About Teamwork
1.) Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.
Michael Jordan
2.) The most important measure of how good a game I laid was how much better I’d made my teammates play.
Bill Russell
3.) The best players don’t win championships. The best team players win championships.
John Wooden
4.) When he took the time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.
Tibetan Proverb
5.) I think team first. It allows me to succeed, and it allows my team to succeed.
LeBron James
6.) 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
7.) On this team, we’re all united in a common goal: to keep my job.
Lou Holtz
8.) 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
9.) It takes both sides to build a bridge.
Fredrik Nael
10.) There are three things we can’t have: We can’t have complacency. We can’t have selfishness, and we can’t lose our accountability.
Nick Saban
See Winning Quotes.
It’s All About the Team Sayings
11.) TEAM: Together, Everyone Achieves More.
Unknown
12.) True leaders don’t create more followers; they create more leaders.
Unknown
13.) It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.
Dwight Eisenhower
14.) Strong alone, unstoppable together.
Unknown
15.) It’s amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn’t matter who gets the credit.
Unknown
16.) Teamwork makes the dream work.
Unknown
17.) Good players inspire themselves; great players inspire others.
Unknown
18.) We must all hang together, or assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
Benjamin Franklin
19.) No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it.
H.E. Luccock
Collaboration Quotations
20.) A boat doesn’t go forward if each one is rowing their own way.
Unknown
21.) Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.
Unknown
22.) Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.
Vesta M. Kelly
23.) Individual commitment to a group effort — that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Vince Lombardi
24.) Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.
Bill Russell
Funny Teamwork Sayings
25.) On this team, we’re all united in a common goal: to keep my job.
Lou Holtz
26.) Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
Casey Stengel
27.) Teamwork is the ability to work as a group toward a common vision, even if that vision becomes extremely blurry.
Unknown
28.) There’s no “I” in team, but there is in “Win.”
Unknown
29.) 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
30.) Teamwork – A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction.
Larry Kersten
31.) Teamwork: because bullets can only go through so many bodies.
Unknown
32.) A group becomes a team when each member gains the confidence to talk behind the others’ backs.
Unknown
33.) Sure, there’s no “I” in “team,” but there is a “ME”!
Unknown
Inspirational
34.) It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn’t matter who gets the credit.
Harry S. Truman
35.) Teamwork divides the tasks and multiplies the success.
Unknown
36.) Individuals play the game, but teams beat the odds.
Unknown
37.) A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group for the good of the group – that’s teamwork.
John Wooden
38.) Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
Malcolm Forbes
39.) 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
40.) 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
41.) Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.
Pat Riley
Inspiring Insights on a Team
42.) 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
43.) Getting good players is easy. Getting ’em to play together is the hard part.
Casey Stengel
44.) The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
John Wooden
45.) Alone, we can do so little; together, we can do so much.
Helen Keller
46.) There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.
George Shinn
On Teams
47.) The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.
Phil Jackson
48.) Teamwork requires that everyone’s efforts flow in a single direction. Feelings of significance happen when a team’s energy takes on a life of its own.
Pat Riley
49.) Teamwork: Simply stated, it is less me and more we.
Unknown
50.) 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
51.) A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of others.
Norman Shidle
52.) I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I sure can pick smart colleagues.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
53.) 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
54.) 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, and the relationship with the fans.
Bill Walton
Strength in Unity
55.) 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
56.) Unity is strength… when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.
Mattie Stepanek
57.) Success is best when it’s shared.
Howard Schultz
58.) A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.
Japanese Proverb
59.) Respecting people is an important part of life, whether it’s the person doing janitorial work or the person above you. It doesn’t matter who you are: I’m going to respect you.
Andy Reid
Great Teams
60.) 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
61.) Team spirit means you are willing to sacrifice personal considerations for the welfare of all. That defines a team player.
John Wooden
62.) It takes two flints to make a fire.
Louisa May Alcott
63.) The key to teamwork is to learn a role, accept a role, and strive to become excellent at playing it.
Pat Riley
64.) The whole is other than the sum of the parts.
Kurt Koffka
65.) Teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.
Patric Lencioni
66.) The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first.
Iyanla Vanzant
67.) Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.
Virginia Burden
68.) The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.
J.C. Penney
69.) Great things in business are never done by one person; they’re done by a team of people.
Steve Jobs
70.) The nicest thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.
Margaret Carty
71.) 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
Build Trust
72.) If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Isaac Newton
73.) In union, there is strength.
Aesop
74.) No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
75.) Teamwork is the foundation of success. The three universal questions that an individual asks of his coach, player, employee, employer are: Can I trust you? Are you committed to excellence? And do you care about me?
Lou Holtz
76.) To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.
Mike Krzyzewski
77.) I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character – teaches people about leadership and cooperation.
Mo Rocca
78.) Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.
Pat Riley
79.) Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.
Ryunosuke Satoro
80.) 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
81.) 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
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Teamwork Quotes to Motivate
82.) The star of the team IS the team. ‘We’ supercedes ‘me’.
John Wooden
83.) None of us is as smart as all of us.
Ken Blanchard
84.) 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
85.) Teams that play together beat those with superior players who play more as individuals.
Jack Ramsey
86.) A single leaf working alone provides no shade.
Chuck Page
87.) Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed. It is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
88.) 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
89.) A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.
Unknown
90.) Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.
James Cash Penney
91.) Teamwork means never having to take all the blame yourself.
Stephen Hawking
92.) Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation, and consensus.
Simon Mainwaring
Best Teamwork Quotes
93.) Some people believe you win with the five best players, but I found out that you win with the five who fit together best.
Red Auerbach
94.) No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.
Halford E. Luccock
95.) No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.
Reid Hoffman
96.) Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
John Rockefeller
97.) Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.
Emily Kimbrough
98.) The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.
Phil Jackson
99.) Strategy is not a solo sport, even if you’re the CEO.
Max McKeown
100.) The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Vidal Sassoon
101.) The nicest thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.
Margaret Carty
102.) 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
103.) Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.
Virginia Burden
104.) Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.
Ryunosuke Satoro
105.) Teamwork makes the dream work.
Unknown
Team Leader
106.) If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
African Proverb
107.) 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
108.) A team that sweats together sticks together.
Unknown
109.) A successful team is a group of many hands and one mind.
Unknown
110.) Team = Many hands and one mind.
Unknown
111.) Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.
Michael Jordan
112.) Don’t aspire to be the best on the team. Aspire to be the best for the team.
Unknown
113.) Working success depends not just on you but on those around you.
Unknown
114.) Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.
Pat Riley
115.) If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
Booker T. Washington
Unity Quotations
116.) I can’t, but we can.
Unknown
117.) One finger cannot lift a pebble.
Hopi proverb.
118.) Teamwork is how everyday people deliver remarkable goals.
Unknown
119.) We’re a team. End of story.
Unknown
120.) If you’re going to have a team of role players, you’d better have a team of guys who truly understand their roles.
Steve Kerr
121.) When you’re one of the leaders on a team, there are no days off.
Tom Brady
122.) The ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team.
Lewis B. Ergen
123.) Teamwork. A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction.
Justin Sewell
124.) The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
John Wooden
125.) I can’t, but we can.
Unknown
126.) Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain
127.) There is no ‘I’ in team, but there is in win.
Michael Jordan
128.) If serving is below you, then leadership is above you.
Unknown
129.) Teamwork divides the tasks and multiplies the success.
Unknown
130.) Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success.
Unknown
FAQ Teamwork Quotes
Here are some frequently asked questions about teamwork quotes.
Bill Russell said, “The most important measure of how good a game I laid was how much better I’d made my teammates play.”
Basketball coach Phil Jackson said, “The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.”
Margaret Mead said, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed. It is the only thing that ever has.”
By Mike O’Halloran
Mike is the founder and editor of Sports Feel Good Stories.
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