Jon Runyan Quotes

I think that people who have played sports have an ability to relate to people because when you're playing you have to work on teams and with opposing players.

If you want to be a part of a team I manage, it is important to put your ego to one side.

I think team sports probably teach you more about giving - about being unselfish and being flexible.

I've played sports pretty much my whole life, and that teaches you how to work with anyone, whether you like that person or you don't, and whether you get along with them or you don't. The circumstances don't matter. Team work is part of life.

Team sports are very important for shaping personalities. It's important that kids understand the mentality behind playing team sports and playing for one another and playing with friends.

To be successful, you really have to put your ego in the background and try to be diplomatic to achieve what you want to achieve.

I've always been a good ensemble player.

I played on teams with 24 guys pulling the rope one way and one guy pulling the other. I've seen how destructive it can be. I tell them, 'If 13 of you are insanely successful and one fails, we all lose.'

I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation.

I've always been a team player.

I think I'd probably shine really well in a team sport, but as everybody knows, I don't handle politics very well. A lot of team sports has a lot of politics. Individual sports, it's all about me.

You can't have an ego when you're a team. One person can't really rule the roost.

Everybody knows I am a team player.

If there is anything I wanted to learn in Europe, it was how I could be more of a team player.

I'm not a good collaborator in general.

Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult.

Most management systems have to do with establishing trust and getting people to cooperate. They're not really about expertise or science.

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

My mum always told me 95 per cent of success was partnering well.

Ultimately, running a band is about the relationships you have with people.

I'd have to just say that working with other people, it's a different world from school.

I've grown up a little bit. I understand the importance of the negotiation. It is a collective act.

I believe you can work with anybody.

You learn how to compromise and you learn how to read each other. Honestly, being in a band with two guys has prepared me so much for when it's time for me to get married!

But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.