Steve McConnell Quotes

I think teams win. I don't think offense wins. I don't think defense wins. I don't think special teams - teams win.

The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.

Organize as much as possible around teams, to achieve enhanced focus, task orientation, innovativeness, and individual commitment.

To have harmony on a team, you need a coach who can get inside the head of every player and get them all pulling in one direction.

Coaching is salesmanship. Coaching is winning players over and convincing them they have to play together. It takes a team conviction to play together to make things work.

One of the greatest joys of leadership is assembling and knitting together teams of fantastic people.

You cannot just allow your team to stink.

I know that any group of people can become a team if they do the right things, but I came to realize over time that if you acquire or develop the right kind of people, that process of building a team is going to be much more effective and easier.

I've won midget championships, a junior-league title, two World Junior Championships and some other minor-hockey championships, but I don't think teams win because I'm on them.

A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.

During the season, your team should be led with exuberance and excitement. You should live the journey. You should live it right. You should live it together. You should live it shared. You should try to make one another better. You should get on one another if somebody's not doing their part. You should hug one another when they are. You should be disappointed in a loss and exhilarated in a win. It's all about the journey.

I don't really want to go into my problems with the team at the time except to say that no one's ever had to pay me to play basketball.

How good can we expect to be if our best player is not our best teammate

Visualize a wagon wheel as a complete team. A leader might be the hub of the wheel at the center. Now suppose the spokes are the connecting relationships the leader is building with people on the outer rim of the wheel. If the hub is removed, then the entire wheel collapses. In a situation like that, if a team loses the leader, the entire team collapses.

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.

When you are speaking to your team after a game, never talk about the kid who was the star of the game. Talk about what your other players did to help the team win. Be sure to spread the wealth... Then have individual meetings with one to three players to praise and reinforce. Make sure you touch them.

The key to teamwork is to learn a role, accept a role, and strive to become excellent playing it.

It's all right buying all these good players but they've got to gel, and that takes time.

You've got to be extremely careful, because you could be with a great team, and you could be the product of a great team. There are some players that stand out despite the teams that they play on, and there are some players that are good because of the team that they're with.

Building product is not about having a large team to manage. It is about having a small team with the right people on it.

I have a good team. It's good to have a good team.

Teams do not make their debut in the first XI - individuals do - but it is the team that enables the individual to get the best out of himself. Football IQ, I call it, understanding roles and the team structure.

You want to build your own team for the highest level, and that happens more with teams that stay together.

I had Lana and she was the number one player on my team

I think the only thing that matters is you win as a team and you lose as a team. And so the team needs to understand that no one player is bigger than any other player. Everybody has a role... Every single role is important.