Niko Kovac Quotes

I want to play every single player, but I can only play 11 at a time.

The optimum committee has no members.

Once you go from 10 people to 100, you already don't know who everyone is. So at that stage you might as well keep growing, to get the advantages of scale.

Nothing great can come of more than three people in a room. If you had 10 incredibly bright people, nothing would come out of it.

The green-light decision process today consists of maybe of 30 or 40 people.

I always work with 18 friends.

Of course I want to play every game, but only 11 can start.

I like having as many team-mates as possible. It's great, because the more people you can learn off, the better I think it will make you as a driver.

When you have a small, balanced squad, you can work better. First of all everyone is involved in every squad list, a meeting can be a good training session.

I'm really interested in working with groups. It's a very simple thing for me, and if I'm given the option to work with two people or 10 or 20 people, I'm going to take 10 or 20. I just think there's so much more I can do with that.

When you are in a big team, there's time when you can stay out.

Many, many years ago, when you named alternates, and they wouldn't travel with you - I think you're dealing with a small roster. Now you travel with these alternates, which you can replace at any time, obviously, if it's a medical situation, so you have it in your back pocket.

If you really want to step up your team's creative thinking, take a hard look at how many people you're putting in a room together. More than three to five is probably too many.

I've seen it again and again in my consulting: Most teams are too large to be innovative, despite their leaders' best intentions.

I've always found that in a team of 15 people, it's a little different than in a team of 40 or 50 people. If I name two or three people captains, inevitably you're disempowering more than you're empowering.

Because we are a small country, unlike England, Italy, or Brazil, we don't have as many good players.

You want to be inclusive, but you can't be to the extent of having so many people involved that it slows you down.

With respect to Committees as you would perceive I am very jealous of their formation. I mean working committees. I think business is always better done by few than by many.

I've come to feel very strongly, not as a joke, that if you appoint a committee of more than four people, their efficiency starts to deteriorate.

The more people we have on our team. the less room there is in the elevator and the more complicated everything gets.

Before games are played in common, no rules in the proper sense can come into existence. Regularities and ritualized schemas are already there, but these rites, being the work of the individual, cannot call forth that submission to something superior to the self which characterizes the appearance of any rule.

The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little.

That's what civilization sometimes did to threats, real or perceived. They walled them off. Us against them. Survival of the fittest. You die so I can live.

The primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group determine the necessity of education.

Effective teamwork begins and ends with communication