Brian Griese 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.

Every player in every team speaks to each other in order to improve the quality on the pitch - that communication is necessary.

In all things, you need a good organization. You can have the best player in the world; if you do not have the best team, you will not win.

The bottom line is the best way to lead is to play well.

I'm talking to my teammates and talking to the opponent. That's the type of player I am.

As a goalkeeper, I needed good players around me. I needed Nemanja Vidic, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Wayne Rooney. It's the same as a CEO.

I have to put my team in a good situation.

You can't keep losing and say nothing in the dressing room.

If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.

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

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

I think there's nothing that's not important. Everything you do - from how you connect with the guys in the locker room, to how you learn, to how you play on the field - everything's important; everything goes with the position.

Something I learned in the Marine Corps that I've applied to acting is, one, taking direction, and then working with a group of people to accomplish a mission and knowing your role within that team.

I don't wilt easily, and a director can't either. He's the captain of the ship and he's got to be in total control. He also has to have respect for the people he's working for. From being an actor and being on a set my whole life, I'm very comfortable there. And I'm not afraid.

Baseball would be a quite remarkable activity if it was the one place in the world where your co-workers didn't have any impact on how productive you were. But in fact, baseball is a high-stress occupation, and those sort of stress-inducing activities... just have a huge impact on how the team functions, I think.

It's part of the fun of it to work with strong personalities.

No team works out teamwork.

To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players.

I like being a leader in real life.

I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.

The productivity of a work group seems to depend on how the group members see their own goals in relation to the goals of the organization.

Directing, I get all kinds of inspiration. It's working with people. It's a lot more fun.

I like working with people. I like talking to people.

I'm going to do all I can, control what I can control and I think one thing I can do beyond just playing the best I can is to start really coaching and leading other people so that I can never walk off the field saying, 'Hey, I did my part but so-and-so didn't,' that can't happen.

I've never really been too fussed about the kind of teammate I have.