Chuck Hagel Quotes

I came from drama school, and it's a group of 18 people working together in every single production and splitting up the roles for three years, so I am very much about the team.

A big part of football is the team aspect.

I try to implement my own ways of making teams successful.

I'm really interested in working with groups. It's a very simple thing for me, and if I'm given the option to work with two people or 10 or 20 people, I'm going to take 10 or 20. I just think there's so much more I can do with that.

The coach will decide the best for the team, but in practice, I will try to make an effort for the good of the group above all.

With being an Avenger there's not really a hierarchy. Everybody gets to make decisions, everybody's put in a position to save the day as opposed to standing there while one person flies in and saves the day and you're like, "Good job!" Avengers is really a team effort.

No one person can take credit for the success of a motion picture. It's strictly a team effort. From the time the story is written to the time the final release print comes off the printer, hundreds of people are involved - each one doing a job - each job contributing to the final product.

I found the bench to be the greatest ally when I had to make individuals comply with what was best for the team

To me, it's really important to drive change through a team because one person, while the buck has to stop with somebody, the company is just too big for one person.

You've got to have confidence and trust in your cast. You have to have confidence and trust in your director, in your editor. It's such a team effort; I really think you have to pull yourself out of it and just trust. I think the number one thing you can do is just trust everyone around you.

No team works out teamwork.

A lot of people saved IBM. Yes, I was the leader of that team, but I could never have done it without a group of IBMers helping me.

Collaboration is the best way to work. It's only way to work, really.

Like a lot of people, I have been a leader in some things, and I've been a follower in some things. I know how to work on a team. And most of life, frankly, to get things done you have to get done, you've got to work as a team.

You can't have an ego when you're a team. One person can't really rule the roost.

Every player in every team speaks to each other in order to improve the quality on the pitch - that communication is necessary.

This isn't tennis or track. This is basketball. It's more about the team than self. There are four other guys on the court with you.

I've always been a collaborator. For me, it's, 'What's the issue I'm trying to solve? Who are the people we need to bring around the table to solve it?'

If you want to be a part of a team I manage, it is important to put your ego to one side.

Every team needs leaders, but not just one or two.

Popovich is always talking about team.

In any leadership, whenever you're facing a tough challenge, find ways to bring people together and get them to serve together.

Nobody on Earth does a project by himself. So you have to make sure your team is intact.

Being the captain is a great privilege and a responsibility to lead a great group with different cultures.

People usually think that it is the coach who has to raise the spirits of his players; that it is the coach who has to convince his footballers; that it is his job to take the lead all the time. But that's not always the case.