Warren Farrell Quotes

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.

I wanted to be part of the team.

I dressed like the guys who I grew up with. I looked like the guys I grew up with.

I like to keep my team together.

When a lot of players come to a club, it can be difficult to gel because you don't know each other properly.

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

When you first assemble a group, it's not a team right off the bat. It's only a collection of individuals

Don't do anything as an individual that will make you stand out from your teammates.

There are definitely aspects of that kind of stuff. The whole team [of Legends of Tommorow] gets thrown together. They don't really know each other like that. They haven't worked together before.

Children were pack animals; let any one of them act different from the group, and the rest would bring him down.

There are no shortcuts to building a team each season. You build the foundation brick by brick.

I love being able to have a team.

The imagined community of millions seems more real as a team of eleven named people.

Trust is the foundation of real teamwork (there is nothing touchy-feely about this).

Putting together a really strong unifying team was an absolute condition. When that fell away, I think that Michael [Gove] felt things had changed.

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.

Basketball is a great mystery. You can do everything right. You can have the perfect mix of talent and the best system of offense in the game. You can devise a foolproof defensive strategy and prepare your players for every possible eventuality. But if the players don’t have a sense of oneness as a group, your efforts won’t pay off. And the bond that unites a team can be so fragile, so elusive.

They called themselves The Souls. They told Ms. Olinski that they were The Souls before they were a team, but she told them that they were a team as soon as they became The Souls. Then after a while, teacher and team agreed that they were arguing chicken-or-egg. Whichever way it began--chicken-or-egg, team-or-The Souls--it definitely ended with an egg. Definitely, an egg.

A functional team must make the collective results of the group more important to each individual than individual members' goals.

You must learn how to hold a team together. You must lift some men up, calm others down, until finally they've got one heartbeat. Then you've got yourself a team.

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.

Building a strong team is both possible and remarkably simple. But is painfully difficult.

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.

I think the teams biggest struggle is remaining a team. It's kinda like a puzzle, If one piece of the puzzle is missing then the puzzle can't be completed. Every team member plays an important part.

I used to play sports in school, but it was hard to do that because you're part of a team and you don't want to let your team down.