Al Horford Quotes

Many activities and team play participation will give you a training that will prove invaluable later on in life.

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

I've always been a good ensemble player.

I think any time you have a super team, whether it's all men or all women or both, what you have are people with very unique strengths that aren't always totally compatible.

Coming in, you're so concerned about learning your job and the things you need to do to be successful individually. Once that's good, you can start to focus on learning guys around you and learning defenses and what they're trying to do to you.

All the different coaches and styles of play I've seen helped me develop, to relate to my teammates.

Everybody knows I am a team player.

I've had the opportunity to have different style teams with similar identities but opposite identities in some ways.

I love solving the problems of having groups work together and removing barriers. But to actually turn around and be in the center of that is an awkward place to be.

I pick good big men as teammates, don't I?

I always step back and look at - you know, look at my background in playing team sports my whole life and taking that approach into Congress. It's not about me going, and you know, feeding my ego going to Congress.

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.

Kev has these old Boston drills, where you all have to talk to each other, and interact, and it's helped us.

I'm always learning from experiences because each one is different and there are different players involved in the project at the time with their own way of doing things.

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions. A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.

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

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.

I think that one thing I have learned as a freshman is that it is really important to collaborate.

I think what helps me is that delegations of all sizes - the small, the medium, the large, the largest - they all have seen me in action. They all have seen me unlocking blockages, unlocking impasses for several years now, and they all know that... I can bring a constructive mood to the table.

During this period at the Department of Education, my working relationship with Judge Thomas was positive.

You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.

No team works out teamwork.

You work with great directors and terrible directors, and so you learn; you take what you think will work for you.

Exceptional employees don't possess God-given personality traits; they rely on simple, everyday EQ skills that anyone can incorporate into their repertoire.