Jae Crowder Quotes

I always focus on team building - both in office and at home.

It's not always the best roster that wins, it's the best team, and sometimes that maybe doesn't jell all that well.

If the chief executive cannot have a party background, how can she ensure her team is wholeheartedly united?

In any team sport, the best teams have consistency and chemistry.

Tactics are so important because everybody has to know what they have to do on the pitch. The relationships and behaviours off the pitch between team-mates have to be as good as possible.

I have been captain in the past and I know what it takes to gel a team and get it going.

I've been on teams in the NBA where we don't play the right way.

You can have really good statistics, which are really good, and it's a serious advantage, but when push comes to shove, it's about players communicating and players playing together.

For me, trying to connect our team together is so important. I know we'll play really well when our team gets really tight. So I want to make sure I connect with the players so that I can help them be at their best.

A good team needs time to play together.

LeBron is the best player in our league, but some people have a hard time playing with him.

We want people that fit in our locker room. As I said, it's all about teamwork.

You talk all the time about being connected, being a unit, believing in each other. But if you have unnamed sources, people out there cutting you down, and then you find out it's the person calling the plays - that would be really hard to deal with, to look at him the same way.

I think people have different definitions of team unity. My definition is doing whatever it takes to win, what makes a great team; it's performance on the field, respect on the field.

That's ultimately the thing that sticks out to you most, that's most important to me, is that I have the respect of my teammates.

I think it's an extremely important factor to have your team together. It goes back to having distractions. When you all stay together for a period of time you're not training people or feeling out different personalities.

They have very good individual players, but they need the collective game. And they still do not have it although there are now only six months left to go.

When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.

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.

We stay as a team. I might be England captain, but that doesn't mean I get treated differently.

Teams are made up of a lot of components. They're made up of hunger, they're made up of desire, they're made up of chemistry, and they're made up of emotion.

It's not a successful captain that makes a successful team.

As a leader, you want your team to play as you are.

Teams that consistently perform at the highest levels are able to come together and be unified across the organization - staff, players, coaches, management, and ownership. When everyone is on the same page, trust develops, and teams can grow and succeed together.

I think people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that's not necessarily right.