Al Horford Quotes

I try to implement my own ways of making teams successful.

Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine.

I have been in many teams that have had loads of talent but did not make it through and been with teams that did not have that much talent and ended up being champions.

Good teams understand how to compete, how to practice the right way.

You need to have discussions and make sure you guide players towards the collective spirit. It can't be done overnight.

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

You really just have to come in and build the spirit up of your team by working them everyday, showing them examples of what they've done and reinforce their work.

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

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

The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.

I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful.

I enjoy difficult tasks. What's hard is finding the people to do them and finding a team to actually enjoy success. That is the real challenge of success.

When you build a team, and you have 24 or 25 players, all can be decisive; can be important.

Whether you're a founder, a leader, or an individual contributor, building a strong team is critical to your success.

You don't create a big and strong team easily.

Man-management is my biggest asset, to help the players enjoy themselves and be better than they already are.

I can lead my team.

I'm going to demand. I'm going to push and prod. And a lot of times, players don't know what is needed for a team to break through.

Getting the best out of your best players gets the best out of the team.

When I'm talking to my teammates, being the vocal leader, going up and down, pushing everyone, they tend to follow.

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

My aim is to get the team to work hard and stay strong together.

I think the way to maximize not just your leadership but your ability to influence your team is whatever you can do that helps the team perform at a really high level.

Of course, it is difficult to arrive at a big team in the first place, but it is even harder to stay there.

I have my way of doing things, because I am that way, I try to raise my voice to motivate team-mates and make them aware that if they lose a ball it is not a problem, so I try to motivate my team-mates and to speak to them and, because I see the game from the back I see everything in front of me; communication on the field can help a lot.