David Stern Quotes

When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.

You'll have to hire people to expand your business. But it's a good discipline to really question if you need each and every hire.

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

What you don't want to do is to hang on to the aging superstar past his prime and take resources away you can otherwise use to build a better overall team.

So you get two good hours on the field about every day, you get about an hour and a half in the meeting room and that's pretty much all you need to thoroughly coach your team.

In our experience, what we have found is the rare commodity is a good management team. And good management teams manage through good and bad cycles and manage to grow their business over a long period of time.

If the coach is good, I don't think a psychologist is needed.

You've got to be extremely careful, because you could be with a great team, and you could be the product of a great team. There are some players that stand out despite the teams that they play on, and there are some players that are good because of the team that they're with.

It's hard to find good teamwork in practice, and I have never thought that we, as a party, were any better at working as a team than the Tories, despite our core values.

If you're a coach and your team doesn't win, at some point you've got to change the coach.

I don't care how good you are, teams can be put under pressure.

I would say for a team to win, you don't need big names. You just need the right pieces.

I want to build a team who can play home and away the same.

Sometimes you get a team that has almost forgotten how to win. That's maybe fallen away from the standards that should be set at this level. Some are big problems, some of them are small problems.

I've been in teams that have struggled and been relegated.

I know that any group of people can become a team if they do the right things, but I came to realize over time that if you acquire or develop the right kind of people, that process of building a team is going to be much more effective and easier.

It's no good if you are at a so-called best team, but you sit on a bench.

Some teams take a while to jell; some click right away.

The wrong personality with the greatest resume in a business will not grow that business.

It's really an organizational job with a football team to watch them go through their day.

I have been in many teams that have had loads of talent but did not make it through and been with teams that did not have that much talent and ended up being champions.

I understand very well that if you are a national coach, you want to use all the opportunities that you have to meet up with your team.

We have to talk about the players we have.

It is important that we are looking at renewable resources and growing businesses based on them.