Marc Gasol Quotes

Teamwork. That's the biggest lesson you can learn from competing in NCAA gymnastics. Everyone just has to work together, you have to trust in everyone, and everyone has to push you to become the gymnast you want to be.

You always want to know, What makes a team great? It's the relationships. It's when you take the field, you actually care about each other. And when you care about each other, you play harder, and you trust the guy next to you.

If you're not loyal to your team, you can get by for a while, but eventually you will need to rely on their loyalty to you, and it just won't be there.

To be successful in coaching you have to treat your team like a family. The leader needs backing from everyone.

Respect is the most essential thing about captaincy. Respect between the captain and players is important. It is give and take.

You want to have that trust with your QB; you want to build that camaraderie throughout your team and just have that relationship with them, so when you're out there, he doesn't have anything to worry about. He tells you to run this route, you run it to the best of your ability and be there for him.

All good teams have that trust and that chemistry where you're able to get on each other and know it's for a better purpose.

That's what I'm a big believer in, giving everyone touches and energy on both ends of the floor.

If the players understand and accept that their leader is steering their direction through thoughtful, careful measures, then they will pull together to give the best effort every time.

If the right people do the right things, we can walk, we can have a future. But if people don't put time into it to make it run in a right way, I don't think your team will work.

The best relationships are when you both want to make each other happy - you buy the groceries, I do the dishes.

When you start out in a team, you have to get the teamwork going and then you get something back.

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing. You have to be a salesman, and you have to get your players, particularly your leaders, to believe in what you're trying to accomplish on the basketball floor.

When two people love each other, they don't look at each other, they look in the same direction.

Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.

You cannot work with men who won't work with you.

Marriage is a team effort. Both of us share that philosophy.

There's a lot of trust being built up. I think we have a lot of work ahead of us.

I have unbelievable trust in my offensive line that they will get the job done. Not only them, but the running backs and as a quarterback, I have to do my job in getting the ball in the right people's hands and doing what I do best.

If you're a coach, and you don't have trust with players, you've got no chance, and your credibility is zero. And that's why it's so important to tell them the truth. If you have something that you're upset about, tell them the truth. If they're doing something wrong, tell them the truth.

The great marriages are partnerships. It can't be a great marriage without being a partnership.

I don't want to have a relationship with someone if I'm not going to work with them.

I trust the people who are working with me. I delegate.

Love is a game that two can play and both win.

Relationships have to have a give and take if they're going to work in the long term.