Jay Roach Quotes

Being able to play together, we're going to motivate each other; we're going to help each other out. I think it would be something special.

Everybody enjoys each other's success. We are always pushing each other to get better on the field and off the field, helping each other out in the nets or in the gym. That's the most important thing.

While working as a team, you push yourself forward and move outside the boundaries. It's a great thing.

If there are actors that are brilliant, people often wonder whether it's intimidating working alongside them, but it really isn't. It just makes you up your game and want to be better. Rather than cowering in their shadows, it's very encouraging to see someone who's incredible; it makes me want to be a bit more like them.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it - young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous - is changed by it.

There is something about me that is collaborative, that wants to get the best performance out of somebody else or to hear something that somebody else has done that's good and to try and make it great.

My mentality is I have to be better for my teammates.

With the right set of mind, with the right people, with the right support, things happen.

When you find your passion, it's great. You go up a mountain with partners, and you have a wonderful opportunity to connect and achieve a goal together. You are not trying to be better than other humans. You are supporting each other.

I want to try to get guys going, and get guys playing together and make everyone around me better.

Stop telling people how far they have left to go. Instead tell them how far they’ve come.

We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.

I think this group of people came together in a way that they haven't before in 2007. I'm very optimistic we can do something ... I want to get there, I want to support this.

If people believe in your material, they will do whatever it takes to get it done. Even if they don't, but you make it as awesome an experience as possible, they will help you reach your goals.

You surround yourself with amazing, grade-A talent, and you're going to have to lift your game. You kind of thrive just by being around such people.

I like to think I set aspirational but reasonable goals and encourage my team to achieve them.

If we're going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

What's great about collaborating is getting to work with wonderful people. That's what theatre is about: other people getting you to give your best, and getting everyone else's best out of them.

I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.

To break the mark definitely showed me I'm on the right track.

I've never been an individual guy. I never cared about the accolades. I've always been driven by the competition and the learning process.

Only those who are built up can build others up, amen?

I feel challenged every day, when I come to work. I feel like I have to step up my game, and that's a great thing.

If he is knocked out of the competition, he encourages his brothers with his words and presence.

The great thing coming from sports is you understand the concept of a team. It leaves no room for being selfish, and that's something I picked up from home.