Terrell Owens Quotes

I think that it is very interesting to write about a team because a team is a group of people who work in very close quarters and have very intense relationships so - in my days of playing sports, I was very rarely on a team that did not have it's own peculiar dynamic, and you wind up having very intense feelings for good and for bad about these people with whom you spend many hours a day.

Look, not everybody plays well with each other on the playground. I get that, that's politics.

You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.

There must be some tensions in a team, which you can't always wipe away or smooth over.

Sometimes you're going to have someone on your team who's just not comfortable with being open. You have to ask yourself, 'Is this person going to allow us to be a real team?' Maybe they're not right for your team. You have to be willing to lose someone sometimes.

It's not important, the relationship between the coaches.

Whether you're on a sports team, in an office or a member of a family, if you can't trust one another there's going to be trouble.

Bringing together disparate personalities to form a team is like a jigsaw puzzle. You have to ask yourself: what is the whole picture here? We want to make sure our players all fit together properly and complement each other, so that we don't have a big piece, a little piece, an oblong piece, and a round piece. If personalities work against each other, as a team you'll find yourselves spinning your wheels.

He doesn't need advice on how to play his position, but he needs advice on how to play team ball... If it's going to be my team, I'll voice my opinion. If he don't like it, he can opt out.

I found the bench to be the greatest ally when I had to make individuals comply with what was best for the team

What's great about 'The Avengers' is that it's the next step. It's not just superhero fights super-villain and superhero wins. It's about superheroes that come together and interact. It's a clash of the egos. You could do 'Avengers 1' without a villain, just with all these guys coming together. They could sit down and just have a discussion.

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.

When you're on tour you definitely don't want lots of arguments. It's very important that everybody gets on because you're in close proximity a great deal of the time.

The hardest job is getting personalities to mesh.

I hate when people talk about certain guys and say they can't work together.

I've seen teams where there are bad relationships in the locker room, but they can leave that aside and win on the field. For me, I'm not satisfied with any part of that.

It's really difficult when you don't see much of a team and you're not familiar with how they play.

It's all realistic, if you get a group of ladies and you stick them together almost every day for three, four months you're going to have some catfights.

In my early England days, there was a bit of tension with captain Nasser Hussain.

When you have a lot of communication, it picks up the aggressiveness with everybody on the court.

There's always been conflict, inherent conflict between players and coaches.

It happens over and over again—a group of people come together, fired up with passion to create change. They begin with huge inspiration and enthusiasm—and a year later, it’s all foundered in the mire of conflict. We could have changed the world ten times over—if we didn’t have to do it together with other people, those irritating, self-righteous, controlling, fluff-brained, clueless idiots who are our friends and allies.

I think one of the worst things people can do is try and fight the people they've agreed to work with.

I never had a problem with a coach in my life, no matter what team I've been in on.I put that on myself because I let that space and opportunity start something especially when people didn't know what was going on or people are trying to find out or figure out what's going on with the team.

Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.