Sue Bird Quotes

It's difficult working with someone who is not a team player.

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

I've always been a good ensemble player.

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.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

I've always been a team player.

One of the things I did well as a young kid was to link well with the rest of the team, so I reckon it's something which is natural for me.

Everybody knows I am a team player.

I've been on a bunch of teams in my career.

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.

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

I'm a people person.

Students who learn to collaborate and negotiate - on Capitol Hill, in the board room, in everyday life - will outperform peers who have higher test scores.

You can think as Einstein as much as you want, but when you come in contact with another person as a work unit of some kind, you have to think as one. You have to figure out all the things that you've studied and that your mind is telling you, and then you have to figure out how to make it work as one, or you have a broken down team.

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.

My mum always told me 95 per cent of success was partnering well.

I'd have to just say that working with other people, it's a different world from school.

I'm a hard worker. I'm a people person.

I would have strong opinions and be prepared to argue my case, but if you talk to my colleagues, I think you'd find they consider me the jokester, the informal mayor of the West Wing.

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.

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

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.

You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.

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