Team Transformation Quotes

When Ronaldinho arrived at Barcelona, they did not win anything. After my arrival, we won it all.

Every year the identity of a team changes to some degree.

Nobody wants to be a bottom feeder and deal with the reality that you have one of the worst records, if not the worst record, in the league. Obviously, we have to turn that around and turn it around fast. I feel like if we ever show up in the same place at the same time we can make some noise in this league.

As a company grows from 25 to 50 to 100 to 200 to 500 to 1000 people, the characteristics of who is the very best talent in leadership roles will change. It's rarely the case that your leadership team at 1000 people is the same leadership team you had a 25 people.

Usually, when you're taking over a team, you're restructuring, you're tearing it down, you're building it up again.

I have to continue to be a great leader and contribute in any way that I can, and get guys to follow suit. That's how you turn a team around.

From the start, the promise of Jurgen Klinsmann as manager of the U.S. men's national team was revolution: gritty, plodding American soccer would give way to attacking flair; the parade of journeymen would end; an era of skilled stylists would begin.

We were able to dominate the world in the '90s because the World Cup victory completely transformed us and changed our mindset.

We want to try and transform the Red Sox into a team like the Braves or the Yankees, where you can almost count on the postseason every year.