Al Horford Quotes

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

It's a very good thing to have a group that stays together and understands each other as well.

Sometimes keeping a squad together can improve spirit and with it performances.

For me, trying to connect our team together is so important. I know we'll play really well when our team gets really tight. So I want to make sure I connect with the players so that I can help them be at their best.

I would say I'm not like the loudest guy, but I lead by example, and I just make sure all my teammates are on the same page and that they know that everybody has a job to do.

Effective teamwork begins and ends with communication

The rider and the team need to understand one another and work in the same direction. Then the rider's happy, and only then will the rider be able to give 100%.

When you start out in a team, you have to get the teamwork going and then you get something back.

The best part of being married is, everything we face in life, we face as a team. I don't do a thing - professionally or personally - without discussing it with my wife.

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.

In any team sport, the best teams have consistency and chemistry.

In a partnership, it is good to have two partners who have complementary means of action, under the assumption that these two partners sufficiently talk to each other to find out what they want to do together

Trust is fundamental, reciprocal and, ideally, pervasive. If it is present, anything is possible. If it is absent, nothing is possible. The best leaders trust their followers with the truth, and you know what happens as a result? Their followers trust them back. With that bond, they can do big, hard things together, changing the world for the better.

Camaraderie doesn't happen by accident; developing a strong sense of trust, accountability, and togetherness around team goals requires intentional effort.

You cannot build a partnership on four games.

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.

It's important that everyone rows in the same direction because I need all my players, those who don't get much playing time too.

A strong working relationship requires every participant to be on the same page.

With clever and mature people, it becomes clear: you shake hands, and look together towards the same goal.

People talk about how precious the relationships of teammates are and the brotherhood and bond.

It's one of those things I have been able to do - play well with my teammates and getting others involved.

I'm definitely a 'comfort' player. As a point guard, I like to know my teammates, feel connected to my teammates, and flow with them.

Collaboration is about listening to someone else and adding your own feelings about that thought.

The biggest thing that I learned is when you're building something - especially a project that requires partners - you have to make sure that there is a lot of overlapping desire and a lot of overlapping alignment with the people that you're doing work with.

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.