Michael Strahan Quotes

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'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.

I'm used to being the main goal scorer, but I also always like to help.

You move around at Fox depending on where they need you. That's what team players do. You pitch in. You know, you make it work.

Good teams, whatever the circumstances or the atmosphere or the pitch, find a way of playing.

You need to make sure you hire people who are capable of being strong team players. Team members should fit the company's culture, be committed to the team, and be capable of being genuinely vulnerable and selfless.

I want to be a guy who helps the team a lot of different ways.

I enjoy making plays for my teammates.

It'll be a challenge for me to come in and fit with a team that's already good.

You must be interested in finding the best way, not in having your own way.

Unlike in school, in life you don't have to come up with all the right answers. You can ask the people around you for help - or even ask them to do the things you don't do well. In other words, there is almost no reason not to succeed if you take the attitude of 1) total flexibility - good answers can come from anyone or anywhere (and in fact, as I have mentioned, there are far more good answers 'out there' than there are in you) and 2) total accountability: regardless of where the good answers come from, it's your job to find them.

You can achieve much in life if you don't mind doing the work and giving someone else the credit.

It's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture.

It's a really unique job that is a little schizophrenic and you have to kind of do it with a sense of humor.The trick is figuring out what each job is asking of you and what it's not asking of you.

My favourite sport at school was rugby. All sports are teamwork, but rugby particularly is about teamwork and I think teamwork is the essence of this.

People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.

In great groups, the right people always have the right job.

Good teams don't care about who scores. Good teams just care about scoring; they don't care who does it.

The number one thing on any team that will keep your players from being selfish is respect for the other players.

Find a way to get back in to the game, find a way to build a partnership, find a way to catch a ball, find a way to stop it.

You just pick up a little bit of whatever the ones you think are appropriate, and you try and, you know, combine them. And then you bring in other people that are great for the things that you're not so good at.

The most DIFFICULT thing for individuals to do when they become part of a team is to sacrifice, it is much EASIER to be selfish.

How does humility manifest itself in leadership and in life? A humble person is more concerned about what is right than about being right, about acting on good ideas than having the ideas, about embracing new truth than defending outdated position, about building the team than exalting self, about recognizing contribution than being recognized for making it.

The last person I ever want working for me is someone who says 'that's not in my job description.

I do what I'm coached to do. That's part of being a team leader and captain. The job will change week in and week out, and it's not for you to question what your job is - it's to go out there and execute your assignments.