Casey Stengel Quotes

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

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

Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.

Isn't cricket supposed to be a team sport? I feel people should decide first whether cricket is a team game or an individual sport.

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

I'd rather play with 10 people and just get penalized all the way until we have to do something else rather than play with 11 when I know that right now that person is not sold out to be a part of this team.

It's hard to find good teamwork in practice, and I have never thought that we, as a party, were any better at working as a team than the Tories, despite our core values.

As a leader, you want your team to play as you are.

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.

When the team plays better, individuals play better as well.

It's easy to get good players. Getting them to play together, that's the hard part.

I think it's an extremely important factor to have your team together. It goes back to having distractions. When you all stay together for a period of time you're not training people or feeling out different personalities.

They have very good individual players, but they need the collective game. And they still do not have it although there are now only six months left to go.

I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.

I don't care how good you are, teams can be put under pressure.

You can have a bunch of individually good players, but it doesn't matter. You gotta learn to play like a team.

It doesn't matter if you have the best individual players, as you need to have the best team unit.

People talk about offensive chemistry all the time, but defensive chemistry is something you have to build, too, and there's a lot of that work to be done with just communications and the feel of who certain guys play.

Friends ask me to pick the best 11 players, but sometimes the best 11 players are not the best team. So it's something that you have to work together.

I like to keep my team together.

Tactics, gameplan and players are all influential in how a team performs but the question is how to manage every individual in your charge and get them to play like a finely tuned orchestra.

Obviously every team is different, and you don't want to try and be them.

The coach will decide the best for the team, but in practice, I will try to make an effort for the good of the group above all.

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