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• The star player must slay his ego and learn teamwork and communication skills before he can achieve the ultimate in sport

  Walt Frazier

  Sports, Stars, Communication

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• We also have no incentive compensation of any kind. And the reason we don’t is because it is detrimental to teamwork.

  Jeff Bezos

  Incentives, Kind, Reason

  "Working At Amazon: No Free Food, And A Low Salary" by Jay Yarow, www.businessinsider.com. November 16, 2012.

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• The kinds of errors that cause plane crashes are invariably errors of teamwork and communication.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Communication, Errors, Risk

  Malcolm Gladwell (2008). “Outliers: The Story of Success”, p.127, Penguin UK

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• The team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

  Mia Hamm

  Soccer, Sacrifice, Individual Effort

  Mia Hamm, Aaron Heifetz (2013). “Go For The Goal: A Champion's Guide To Winning In Soccer And Life”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• What I learned from 9/11 that is really important, first and foremost, you have to motivate all the workers and understand that they've left their families to help clean up a pretty awful situation. Every time you have an emergency management situation, it's all about teamwork.

  Joe Lhota

  Important, Awful, Emergencies

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• Teamwork - everything is one. You can connect with the emptiness of all things. All things are empty.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Emptiness

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• In the act of deciding what to eliminate, you place value on what's left behind.

  Coco Chanel

  Left Behind, Behinds, Values

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• When I was put in a situation where I'm going there, you have to look at the team and the possibility that hey, we can probably do some good things over there.

  Latrell Sprewell

  Sports, Looks, Hey

  InsideHoops Intreview, www.insidehoops.com. October 11, 2003.

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• Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Honesty, Integrity, Character

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• To most of you, your neighbor is a stranger, a guy with a barkin' dog and a high fence around him. Now you can't be a stranger to any guy that's on your own team. So tear down the fence that separates you. Tear down the fence and you'll tear down a lot of hates and prejudices. Tear down all the fences in the country and you'll really have teamwork.

  Robert Riskin

  Country, Dog, Hate

  "Fictional character: Long John Willoughby/John Doe". "Meet John Doe", 1941.

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• Why should I clutter my mind with general information when I have men around me who can supply any knowledge I need?

  Henry Ford

  Men, Mind, Team Building

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• I know we're termites. But if all the termites got together, the house would fall down.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Fall, House, Together

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• Let us join our efforts toward building the unshakable foundations for a culture of peace.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Effort, Foundation, Collaboration

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• Chess is a game that benefits people of all ages, especially kids, in any area of life, business, problem solving, and social skills. Chess has the unique ability to combine focus, concentration, imagination, coordination, teamwork, and leadership all at the same time.

  Dustin Diamond

  Business, Kids, Unique

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• The best way to serve the individuals on the team is to see that the whole team wins.

  John C. Maxwell

  Winning, Way, Individual

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• What we care about is, when faced with a problem and you're a member of a team, do you, at the appropriate time, step in and lead. And just as critically, do you step back and stop leading, do you let someone else?

  Laszlo Bock

  Team Building, Care, Steps

  "How to Get a Job at Google". mobile.nytimes.com. February 22, 2014.

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• Teamwork is wasting half of one's time explaining to others why they are wrong.

  Georges Wolinski

  Half, Explaining, Recreation

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• The philosophy of jazz represents tolerance, teamwork and inclusion. That's what America is about. The music reflects that.

  T. S. Monk

  Philosophy, America, Tolerance

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• The town, the team, it's a family. That has helped. For some people who have had to deal with some of the problems I have had to deal with don't have football as an out.

  Brett Favre

  Inspirational, Sports, Football

  "Sunday Conversation: Brett Favre". Interview with Suzy Kolber, www.espn.in. November 24, 2004.

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• 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

  Motivational, Inspiring, Sports

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• 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

  Two, People, Effort

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• Volleyball is one of the most interactive games going. It is a game of intuition, imagination, improvisation - but most of all, of reciprocity - of teamwork. There is no way to free-lance in volleyball.

  Marv Dunphy

  Inspirational, Funny, Sports

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• To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

  Mitch Caplan

  Decision, Collaboration, Succeed

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• Even Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, and Albert Einstein made serious mistakes. But the scientific enterprise arranges things so that teamwork prevails: What one of us, even the most brilliant among us, misses, another of us, even someone much less celebrated and capable, may detect and rectify.

  Carl Sagan

  Mistake, Missing, Kepler

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• Bolton are an established team in the Premiership these days and well respected by the other sides.

  Mark Lawrenson

  Sides, Inspirational Team, These Days

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