Rafael Benitez Quotes

When you try to build a team, you need a mix of talent.

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

I need to build my team around my weaknesses.

When building a strong team, you need a strong leader.

It's difficult to gel players.

As you develop relationships in your team you have to learn how your teammates react to being yelled at or how to put your arm around them and show them how to do things. You have to build those relationships up and understand who that person is and how they respond and choose your way to lead them to hopefully help everyone out.

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

Every team I've played on has players-only meetings, players staff meetings, so this is part of the process.

It's easy to get good players. Getting them to play together, that's the hard part.

One of the greatest joys of leadership is assembling and knitting together teams of fantastic people.

I work through teams. It's the only way I know how to work.

No matter whether you are new or an old team member, you need time to adjust to one another.

It's all right buying all these good players but they've got to gel, and that takes time.

I think people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that's not necessarily right.

It is important for the manager to find the right solution for your team.

I think there are always growing pains with teams.

You're always going to get different personalities within a team.

Good leaders make people's strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

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

It's an interesting juxtaposition, being student body president and leading others and learning how to effectively help people on the team in a way that's not as direct.

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

I've learned so much whether it was, I played a lot of team sports, so being part of a team, learning how to be a leader on different teams, and how to deal with the ebb and flow of different games.

I just think it's great in cricket to come into a team environment. It's the first time I've ever experienced it.

Sometimes you're going to have someone on your team who's just not comfortable with being open. You have to ask yourself, 'Is this person going to allow us to be a real team?' Maybe they're not right for your team. You have to be willing to lose someone sometimes.

As a manager, you manage a team and there are good periods where there are good feelings in the group.