Mike Krzyzewski Quotes

You're only as good as the sum of your parts, and one person can't be a team.

The best teams play for each other, not with each other

A team is a fist-not five fingers.

Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.

Every team requires unity. A team has to move as one unit, one force, with each person understanding and assisting the roles of his teammates. If the team doesn't do this, whatever the reason, it goes down in defeat. You win or lose as a team, as a family.

Within an ensemble, like in sports, if you do your little job, it makes everybody look good.

Collaboration is really important.

I think our strength is this strong relationship we have all together.

Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.

I'm one that likes to collaborate.

A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball - there's just the team.

Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.

One finger cannot lift a pebble.

You can take a team of absolute all-stars in terms of their native abilities, but if they are not working together, they are much less effective than a team where there is less native ability but a higher degree of teamwork and cohesion.

This working together is just so important: you're either working together, or you're not working together.

You cannot win a game of football on your own; it's about the entire squad working together to achieve something. That's how football works: it has always been about the group, not the individual.

It's a team game.

You develop a team to achieve what one person cannot accomplish alone. All of us alone are weaker, by far, than if all of us are together.

You don t get the breaks unless you play with the team instead of against it.

Sports also teaches you that it's about the team, and the better your teammates are, the better they make you.

I'm a very big believer in collaboration and teamwork.

I think you have everyone kind of pulling on the same end of the rope. It's not like you're Robin Williams and everyone else is a deaf mute. It's like - there's plenty of help.

The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.

You can't win if you don't play as a unit.

The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.