Dwyane Wade Quotes

People want to see how we get teams to come together so quickly. They want to see how we get young guys to play so hard and so unselfish. I'm fine with that. I have no problem sharing that.

What I'm worried about is our team and our players developing and getting better. That's the most important thing.

It's not enough to buy good players, one has to develop a team.

The coach will decide the best for the team, but in practice, I will try to make an effort for the good of the group above all.

When you first assemble a group, it's not a team right off the bat. It's only a collection of individuals

Championship teams are built on being prepared, playing unselfishly and being held accountable.

Coaching is salesmanship. Coaching is winning players over and convincing them they have to play together. It takes a team conviction to play together to make things work.

It's better to have a great team than a team of greats.

You take a team with twenty-five assholes and I'll show you a pennant. I'll show you the New York Yankees.

Great football coaches have the vision to see, the faith to believe, the courage to do - and 25 great players.

All that matters is to help the team.

You must learn how to hold a team together. You must lift some men up, calm others down, until finally they've got one heartbeat. Then you've got yourself a team.

Building a strong team is both possible and remarkably simple. But is painfully difficult.

As always I am focused on training and coaching my team.

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.

Every team requires unity. A team has to move as one unit, one force, with each person understanding and assisting the roles of his teammates. If the team doesn't do this, whatever the reason, it goes down in defeat. You win or lose as a team, as a family.

We were striving and struggling not just for a dream ticket, but a dream team...

He doesn't need advice on how to play his position, but he needs advice on how to play team ball... If it's going to be my team, I'll voice my opinion. If he don't like it, he can opt out.

Good teams don't care about who scores. Good teams just care about scoring; they don't care who does it.

Part of my job being a leader and captain of the team is not just to play well and lead well but find a way to make everybody around me better.

This may sound arrogant, but I believe that if we'd done teamship better, we'd still be there. Where we fell down was the inability to hold together. We should have learnt from the great football teams. The players may not like each other. They have egos, they have their own ambitions, they have different personalities, but they are still bloody good teams.

Good leadership isn't about advancing yourself. It's about advancing your team.

Don't worry about your individual numbers. Worry about the team. If the team is successful, each of you will be successful, too.

The team is the star, never an individual player.

The best teams I've had had a little bit of swagger.