Gregg Popovich Quotes

I'll give the director what he wants, but please explain the requirement. If it reaches me, then there's communication.

In football, it's the ultimate team sport. You have to have good people around you as a quarterback for things to happen.

Well, then we got to know each other and eventually worked out a bit of idea of management.

In a partnership, it is good to have two partners who have complementary means of action, under the assumption that these two partners sufficiently talk to each other to find out what they want to do together

You can't try a man-to-man if you don't practice it.

I'm ready to come out and show people I'm able to play defense.

The most satisfying way to play basketball is when you can get the best out of everyone on the court.

You need to defend as a team to defend well.

I stay in the middle and my team-mates can go to attack.

We don't got to talk to each other off the court. As long as we talk on the court, on the defensive end, that's all that matters to me.

The strikers need the midfielders, defenders, and goalkeepers. My objective is to have everything work in all the aspects.

You can think as Einstein as much as you want, but when you come in contact with another person as a work unit of some kind, you have to think as one. You have to figure out all the things that you've studied and that your mind is telling you, and then you have to figure out how to make it work as one, or you have a broken down team.

If your offensive and defensive lines are speaking and people are listening, you've got a very good chance of success.

In a way, sometimes collaborating is more difficult because you have to listen.

Football is a total team sport.

Teamwork doesn't come naturally. It must be taught.

I've been lucky with the circle of people I'm playing with. We've played enough that there's a language we talk with each other when we play.

Effective teamwork begins and ends with communication

My mum always told me 95 per cent of success was partnering well.

Climbing has worked for me in a number of ways on Capitol Hill. I'm much more inclined to look at what people do, as opposed to what they say. Also, it's about working together - we're all on the rope together, and you don't get to cut the rope if you're not getting along with someone.

I've grown up a little bit. I understand the importance of the negotiation. It is a collective act.

I've always been a good ensemble player.

Businesses that run well are almost like marriages. Everything has to be up for discussion, or there will be real problems.

When you're working on a creative thing, everyone has an idea, and they're pushing it. The first time you work with anybody, you have to get comfortable with the way another person pushes hard for what they want.

You learn how to compromise and you learn how to read each other. Honestly, being in a band with two guys has prepared me so much for when it's time for me to get married!