Don Yaeger Quotes

To be successful in coaching you have to treat your team like a family. The leader needs backing from everyone.

Trust is a core currency of any relationship. Sometimes our need to control and micromanage everything erodes our confidence in ourselves and others. The truth: People are much more capable than we think. A hearty dose of trust is often what's needed to unlock the magic. Go ahead, have faith.

When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.

Here we spent so much time together - eight months of our lives almost - and it was so great because we all got so close and that really made us not afraid to improve with each other.

One of the things that is very important to me is how I feel about my team. And not just what their jobs are but what they mean to one another.

That's why you play the game. You play the game for your teammates, who really want to play with and for you.

I like to create a good atmosphere in the dressing room.

You always want to know, What makes a team great? It's the relationships. It's when you take the field, you actually care about each other. And when you care about each other, you play harder, and you trust the guy next to you.

I've got great relationships with all of my teammates regardless of who it is.

The vibe in our locker room is real energetic and fun and real personable, I think from Day 1. That gets you through a lot of tough times, where in hard times, it might be common nature for guys to do their own thing and split up and become silent.

The dressing-room environment is very difficult to replicate, camaraderie is very important.

I always want harmony within the band. I want it to work.

I surround myself, not with yes men, but people who have their own ideas and are on board with with I want to do.

I know how important I am to my team, my teammates. They tell me every day.

I always try to make it a point when I'm talking to guys to say we. It's not you need to do this, it's what can we do better. It makes it more of a family culture.

Teamwork. That's the biggest lesson you can learn from competing in NCAA gymnastics. Everyone just has to work together, you have to trust in everyone, and everyone has to push you to become the gymnast you want to be.

All good teams have that trust and that chemistry where you're able to get on each other and know it's for a better purpose.

All of the great teams that I've been a part of, we're holding each other accountable if somebody is doing something wrong you call them out, you let them know. There's no hard feelings, it's all love at the end of the day.

I just can't say enough about the actors having faith and trust in the writers and the writers having faith and trust in the actors.

One is, that they will feel about you that you're going to make something wonderful for them. And they help you by expressing themselves. Not telling you how to do it, but encouraging you and accepting your vision and working with you on that kind of a level.

A good cult delivers on its promises. A good cult nourishes the needs of its members, has transparency and integrity, and creates provisions for challenging its leadership openly. A good cult expands the freedoms and well-being of its members rather than limits them.

That's ultimately the thing that sticks out to you most, that's most important to me, is that I have the respect of my teammates.

If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.

You've got to have confidence and trust in your cast. You have to have confidence and trust in your director, in your editor. It's such a team effort; I really think you have to pull yourself out of it and just trust. I think the number one thing you can do is just trust everyone around you.

Williams really does feel like a family, and I have built up very good relationships with people here; in fact, some of my best friends work for Williams. A friendly atmosphere can really help on the track as well because I feel like I can communicate freely with the team.