Team Quotes

I do have one instruction for you, General. Do something about that damned football team.

But I noted with real satisfaction how well ex-footballers seemed to have leadership qualifications... I believe that football, perhaps more than any other sport, tends to instill in men the feeling that victory comes through hard - almost slavish - work, team play, self-confidence, and an enthusiasm that amounts to dedication.

Probably no one here knows I coached a football team - a service team - playing against Georgetown. I think it was in the fall of 1924 Lou Little was your coach, and he beat us. But it was a very happy circumstance, because it brought me the friendship of another man, Lou Little, who to this day remains my very warm associate and friend.

One of my predecessors is said to have observed that in making his decisions he had to operate like a football quarterback - he could not very well call the next play until he saw how the last play turned out. Well, that may be a good way to run a football team, but in these days it is no way to run a government.

I would like to be remembered not as anyone unique or special, but as part of a great team in this country that has struggled for many years, for decades and even centuries.

There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team.

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

A leader should give the credit of the success to the team members. But when failure comes, leaders should absorb the failures and protect the team members.

Great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.

A small team of A+ players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players.

My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that's what I try to do.