Tim Duncan Quotes

The best teams play for each other, not with each other

Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.

It's not just about working hard, it's about working together. You have to care more about the team than you do about yourself

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

You don't just be a team. You become a team. Through tough games you find that you need each other

Team spirit means you are willing to sacrifice personal considerations for the welfare of all. That defines a team player.

A team is not a group of people that work together. A team is a group of people that trust each other.

Confidence shared is better than confidence only in yourself.

We have to back each other up no matter what. Defense, you have to do your job, and offense has to do theirs.

When people believe they need each other, they cooperate.

My teammates have my back; I have theirs.

I'm open to working with anybody and everybody as long as I have faith in them and they have faith in me.

We win together, and we lose together.

I think it's huge, especially in team sports, for players to be able to rely on each other and to really trust in each other.

America's not just [about] looking out for yourself, it's not just about greed, it's not just about trying to climb to the very top and keep everybody else down. ... Hard work, that's a value. Looking out for one another, that's a value. The idea that we're all in it together and [that] I'm my brother's keeper and [my] sister's keeper, that's a value.

Either we're a team or we aren't. Either you trust me or you don't.

By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made

From all of us Scarborough girls, greetings and thanks. This task required two, working together, trusting each other. It required the "us," not the "I." For that is true love, is it not?

If you're going to play together as a team, you've got to care for one another. you've got to love each other.

Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We.

The important thing is to not walk alone, but to rely on each other as brothers and sisters

No men can act with effect who do not act in concert; no men can act in concert who do not act with confidence; no men can act with confidence who are not bound together with common opinions, common affections, and common interests.

Put the Team Before Yourself.

To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.

We need to redefine community and find a variety of ways of coming together and helping each other.