Mike Krzyzewski Quotes

Every good team is going to have a good culture in the clubhouse.

All of the great teams that I've been a part of, we're holding each other accountable if somebody is doing something wrong you call them out, you let them know. There's no hard feelings, it's all love at the end of the day.

For a team to accomplish their goal, everybody’s got to give up a little bit of their individuality.

One man doesn't make a team. It takes eleven.

A football team represents a way of being, a culture.

During the season, your team should be led with exuberance and excitement. You should live the journey. You should live it right. You should live it together. You should live it shared. You should try to make one another better. You should get on one another if somebody's not doing their part. You should hug one another when they are. You should be disappointed in a loss and exhilarated in a win. It's all about the journey.

I know you're smart. But everyone here is smart. Smart isn't enough. The kind of people I want on my research team are those who will help everyone feel happy to be here.

In my teams, when we win, we all win, and when we lose, I lose.

This is a team game and one man doesn't win and one man doesn't lose. In the end, the best team usually wins.

In developing teams, I don't believe in rules. I believe in standards. Rules don't promote teamwork, standards do

...Obama said, 'I welcome debate among my team, but I won't tolerate division'.

Football is a team sport, and there is no one individual who is bigger than the next person.

A good team is a great place to be, exciting, stimulating, supportive, successful. A bad team is horrible, a sort of human prison.

With being an Avenger there's not really a hierarchy. Everybody gets to make decisions, everybody's put in a position to save the day as opposed to standing there while one person flies in and saves the day and you're like, "Good job!" Avengers is really a team effort.

When your teammate looks you in the eye and holds you accountable, that's the greatest kind of leadership there is

Lead, don't drive. And give credit. Don't blame. If an officer on your team suggested something and it worked well, give them credit. If it doesn't work well, you take the blame because you made the decision.

Talent is important. But the single most important ingredient after you get the talent is internal leadership. It's not the coaches as much as one single person or people on the team who set higher standards than that team would normally set for itself. I really believe that that's been ultimately important for us.

The basic skill of an actor is, in fact, empathy, and that's maybe not a skill, it's a disposition. I am an assistant storyteller. I enjoy feeling useful to a team effort. It's my way of finding a use for myself, a utility in this world.

There are a lot of other parts on this team that do great things to make it easy for me to go out there.

WE all have to play as a team to make the world a better place

The number one thing on any team that will keep your players from being selfish is respect for the other players.

The audience is not your boss. They are your collaborators and when you collaborate with someone you don't have to listen to everything they think or say.

I used to play sports in school, but it was hard to do that because you're part of a team and you don't want to let your team down.

That quality is what makes women great collaborators; we understand it's a team effort. Even if it comes from society telling us to be polite.

I think I'm one of the patches of the quilt here, myself and Dwyane.