Larry Dixon Quotes

I like to keep my team together.

For me, trying to connect our team together is so important. I know we'll play really well when our team gets really tight. So I want to make sure I connect with the players so that I can help them be at their best.

It's really difficult when you don't see much of a team and you're not familiar with how they play.

It's not always the best roster that wins, it's the best team, and sometimes that maybe doesn't jell all that well.

We had built up a team in Edmonton that really knew who each other was from a personal standpoint and from a professional standpoint. Our nucleus had stayed together for a long time.

To be able to influence someone or to be able to have a group of guys come together to have a successful team and to be together all the time every day for, you know, a year and longer together, you have to have a - find a common ground. And that common ground for us is football.

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

It's difficult to gel players.

The bonding of the team is exceptionally important and trying to create a good team spirit and to have some fun.

When you bring a lot of new players in, that is the hardest thing, getting everyone playing together.

You want to build your own team for the highest level, and that happens more with teams that stay together.

That's something that's so often overlooked in this game - the dynamics of the locker room.

Everyone wants to be close to your team. You don't want to have guys that don't feel comfortable in the locker room.

Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.

And touring is difficult when everybody's heads aren't in the same place.

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

I'd rather play with 10 people and just get penalized all the way until we have to do something else rather than play with 11 when I know that right now that person is not sold out to be a part of this team.

You go into the Lions camp with preconceived ideas about players and teams and then find guys are actually very different, and the beauty of the Lions is that all those characters are moulded into it. I find that exciting.

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.

Now, everybody always says there's no 'I' in team, but there is an 'I' in win, because the individuals make the team what it is, and how they think and what they do is important to the team. So when you act like the individual is not important, well, it is damn important who these people are and what they are.

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.

I think it's important for us, as a team, to know each other. Know our teammates and our coaches. To interact with them is more important than to be 'liked' by whoever on Chatrun.

I always focus on team building - both in office and at home.

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