Mike Krzyzewski Quotes

You don't just be a team. You become a team. Through tough games you find that you need each other

The best teams play for each other, not with each other

A team doesn't win the championship if its players are working from different agendas.

It's not just about working hard, it's about working together. You have to care more about the team than you do about yourself

You have to lose yourself in the team and you have to lose yourself in the game

Togetherness is huge. I just can't see anybody getting results in team sport without being together.

Championship teams are built on being prepared, playing unselfishly and being held accountable.

The purpose of a team is not goal attainment but goal alignment.

The team is the star, never an individual player.

Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.

In basketball, you can be the greatest individual player in the world and still lose every game, because a team will always beat an individual.

No one is bigger than the team. If you can't do things our way, you're not getting time here and we don't care who you are

A team can't work when a guy puts himself in front of a team. I have yet to be on a team like that.

We believe in people executing their role and caring about the team more than anything individually

As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit.

I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed.

I am constantly being asked about individuals. The only way to win is as a team. Football is not about one or two or three star players.

My No. 1 priority, and it always has been this, is keeping our team together and making sure we have the right guys in the right positions to make a run at this for a long time.

The NBA needs more of that 'it's-about-us-against-them' mentality.

Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

When I say, 'We're a team,' the reason why I point that out is because at 'All My Children,' that's the mindset. They're a team. And I've said this to other people: They're like a united front.

In the dressing room, you can never lose that group concept.

Team success stood, and stands, above everything for me.

At the end, what matters is that the team wins, not only my goals.