John C. Mather Quotes

I like being on a team and that's what a band is like. It's us against them, strength in numbers, and sharing the success and failure.

Any group is weaker than a man alone unless they are perfectly trained to work together.

The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.

Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.

Ants, fighting together, will vanquish the lion.

Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.

Good teams I played on... just the tone that they play with, the energy they play with, how they go about it. When you get it going the right way, you get everyone going in the same direction and it's a powerful thing.

Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.

Within an ensemble, like in sports, if you do your little job, it makes everybody look good.

Collaboration is really important.

The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.

There are lots of ways to work together.

Band members have a special bond. A great band is more than just some people working together. It's like a highly specialized army unit, or a winning sports team. A unique combination of elements that becomes stronger together than apart.

I'm one that likes to collaborate.

One of the things about a great team is that the whole exceeds the sum of its partners.

Le Mans is such a great race because you can never do anything alone. You have to work as a team member. And being a team member makes you a better person.

A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play.

I think my best skill in this whole deal is as a conduit to try to bring people together, because I think it's in our unity that we'll have the greatest strength.

A good band is like a team. You want to have the right balance. It's not always the best people you need, but the right ones for the job.

I may see a way I want to do something, and I understand when you have a team, everybody can't do their own thing. I'm willing to put my own agenda aside to do what's best for the team.

I believe in work, in connections between the players, I think what makes football great is that it is a team sport. You can win in different ways, by being more of a team, or by having better individual players. It is the team ethic that interests me, always.

Union gives strength.

Together, the ants eat the elephant.

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.

A shared experience can energize a team toward its common goal more quickly than a direct order ever will.