Mike Mansfield Quotes

I played on teams with 24 guys pulling the rope one way and one guy pulling the other. I've seen how destructive it can be. I tell them, 'If 13 of you are insanely successful and one fails, we all lose.'

But Eddie does not make all the decisions. Eddie can listen to reason; Eddie can be swayed or talked in or out of certain things. Eddie allows other people to lead in this band and to have certain roles that are very fundamental to the decision-making process.

There is no country in the world that rests on the shoulders of one man.

Like a lot of people, I have been a leader in some things, and I've been a follower in some things. I know how to work on a team. And most of life, frankly, to get things done you have to get done, you've got to work as a team.

Personality-wise, I'm much more suited to be in a band and part of an ensemble than I am to lead. I never have been comfortable with the leading thing.

You can't have an ego when you're a team. One person can't really rule the roost.

When team members openly and passionately share their opinions about a decision, they don't wonder whether anyone is holding back. Then, when the leader has to step in and make a decision because there is no easy consensus, team members will accept that decision because they know that their ideas were heard and considered.

It's important everyone knows their roles individually and collectively as a group.

I always make decisions for the good of the team of France.

It takes a lot of people to create a success. That's why I say that few leaders are successful unless a lot of people want them to be.

I always said that when Madrid win, it wasn't just because of Ronaldo, Kaka, or another, and when you lose, it is not fair to blame the failures on these people alone.

I pick good big men as teammates, don't I?

The one thing we learned about community - you can't force community.

The whole Jacket thing is so much about us playing together and creating this circle of power.

Stars don't necessarily make a good team and that is what we must learn.

A good team needs time to play together.

I have fitted perfectly in the team and in the team's style of play.

Everything that I do, I put my teammates first. To me, that's the mark of a true leader. That's what I want to be. I want to be a leader and have guys continue to follow.

Teams are a collective expression.

I always ask myself if a decision is in the team's best interest.

When I do something, I consult my family, so that when you get me, you get my whole family.

My quarterbacks have to be a member of my family, and that has nothing to do with football. Trust is everything. We have to connect on a deep level in order to really be able to build something together.

People usually think that it is the coach who has to raise the spirits of his players; that it is the coach who has to convince his footballers; that it is his job to take the lead all the time. But that's not always the case.

Collaboration is an important part of the process, and ego is never a part of it.

I wrote '33 Men' in eight weeks. Not only was it a combination of simultaneously writing and interviewing, but as I dug deeper into the miners' story, I found the key to their success was the ability to place their individuality on the back burner and bring forward the sense of a collective group responsibility.