Mark Messier Quotes

I think it's an extremely important factor to have your team together. It goes back to having distractions. When you all stay together for a period of time you're not training people or feeling out different personalities.

You go into the Lions camp with preconceived ideas about players and teams and then find guys are actually very different, and the beauty of the Lions is that all those characters are moulded into it. I find that exciting.

My No. 1 priority, and it always has been this, is keeping our team together and making sure we have the right guys in the right positions to make a run at this for a long time.

You want to build your own team for the highest level, and that happens more with teams that stay together.

It's not always the best roster that wins, it's the best team, and sometimes that maybe doesn't jell all that well.

Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people I'm working with. I am aware of what the team is capable of and how the organisation works, and they are familiar with what makes me tick.

One thing we were looking for from the start was players who really fit together, who sounded in tune.

I'd rather play with 10 people and just get penalized all the way until we have to do something else rather than play with 11 when I know that right now that person is not sold out to be a part of this team.

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

I would compare that to when I first started with the Montreal Canadiens; it was a big family then, where the guys really stuck together and worked like a unit. But when I came back in '88, it was not like that anymore.

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

It doesn't matter how big the stage is. If all 11 guys are on the same page and we believe in what we're doing and we execute it, then plays are going to work. It's really as simple as that.

Separation, I think, in an early-stage company or a startup environment is not a good thing. You need to basically live and breathe the entire environment.

A small squad means everyone feels part of it and integrated.

I think it makes the game much easier to play once you have a good cohesion off the court. I think that's big because you come into a locker room at the NBA level, there's so much emotion, so much pride in the locker room.

I like to keep my team together.

Continuity is very important for national teams.

Ultimately, if you can have a very cohesive and tight unit, it obviously will pay dividends down the line.

I always want harmony within the band. I want it to work.

A lot of making a movie is the comfort level of the people. It's just feeling open. We need to get along. We have to know something about each other.

We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves... One can't unite bananas with scattered leaves.

Trust is the foundation of real teamwork (there is nothing touchy-feely about this).

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.

No coach is more important than the Team

Im only as good as my team, I love you guys so much