Jeff Van Gundy Quotes

In order to run a great business, you must know that a bunch of really intrinsically unhappy people, that's not a recipe for success. Don't be anywhere you don't need to be; it's just like that.

How do you make people do the best work? You make them feel comfortable, so you can feel comfortable - and then you can have a really good ballgame!

True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.

Our team has a lot of talent. I hope that soon we will break out with four or five goals and avoid overtime.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

When you look at the best teams, the teams that make a run at it, they're the healthiest teams.

When it comes right down to it, I don't care if I like the person I'm paired with or if the person likes me as long as it works and it sets up the team for success.

When I am happy on the pitch, it's because everything is going well off it.

The main thing for me - as a leader, anyway, is that you perform well. That's most of the battle.

Waiting to be happy limits our brain's potential for success, whereas cultivating positive brains makes us more motivated, efficient, resilient, creative, and productive, which drives performance upward.

If you're in the best team in the world, you or your teammate have to win.

I have a lot to learn about NASCAR. But I've learned if you have the right people in the right places doing the right things, you can be successful at whatever you do.

Growth and profit are a product of how people work together.

We have a good team, and I think we'll have a good season this year.

I think I am missing a gene that most people have to enable them to feel happiness about success and these kind of things.

It was far more fun than work doing those shows for all those years, we all loved each other and loved going to work, we all understood how fortunate we were to be in that place, to have achieved that success worldwide.

I kind of have a happy magnet. I can't stand being depressed, so I work my ass off to get out of it as soon as possible.

The bottom line, in the professional level, no matter where you go, there's going to be competition. That's what it is. At the end of the day, you're trying to put team first and make each other better.

People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.

They have an understanding regime; they work hard and get results, they are a happy team.

I look forward to going to work. Everybody is at the top of their game. It was like we just got to play.

In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement.

When you have to work, work with a smile.

It makes me very happy when I create goals or score goals myself, but the most important thing is that the team reaches its goal and plays positive football.

You have to watch all sides of your advancement, you have to make sure people's bodies and minds are healthy and their morale is cool before you can really go out and play great music.