Ronnie Hawkins Quotes

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

I've always been a good ensemble player.

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

Music teaches people to work together, which is maybe one of the most important skills.

There are lots of ways to work together.

A band is like a marriage - you don't know why it works, but when it does, everything feels right.

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

I may see a way I want to do something, and I understand when you have a team, everybody can't do their own thing. I'm willing to put my own agenda aside to do what's best for the team.

I like working in a team, and at Ferrari there is always good cooperation.

There's a beauty in being part of a band, when there's equality and trust.

Like a lot of people, I have been a leader in some things, and I've been a follower in some things. I know how to work on a team. And most of life, frankly, to get things done you have to get done, you've got to work as a team.

It's highly collaborative, musical theater, so everybody has got to somehow get along.

It's great to communicate as a team.

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

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.

You can't just put any four people together and it goes 'yaaaaah', y'know?

Put the Team Before Yourself.

Good teams I played on... just the tone that they play with, the energy they play with, how they go about it. When you get it going the right way, you get everyone going in the same direction and it's a powerful thing.

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.

To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.

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

It's funny, we all really, really got along. I don't know how it was in years past but this year, I was really with a good group of people. No one tried to sabotage each other or steal the other ones moments.

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

I played on teams with 24 guys pulling the rope one way and one guy pulling the other. I've seen how destructive it can be. I tell them, 'If 13 of you are insanely successful and one fails, we all lose.'