'If you want to be a winner you practice the right way. I saw the wrong way being practiced and I said something.'- David Ross

'It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.' –Napolean Hill

'There is nothing more critical to your success than the individuals you choose to surround yourself with.'- George Raveling (George Raveling)

'Politeness is the poison of collaboration.' - Edwin Land

'The enemy of the best is the good. If you're always settling with what's good, you'll never be the best.'- Jerry Rice

'The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.' - Phil Jackson

'All the successful teams I've ever seen have 3 characteristics: They play unselfish, they play together, and they play hard.'- Larry Brown

'It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) that those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.' - Charles Darwin

'The good officials can handle a coach and the good coaches can handle the official.' - Tom Izzo

'Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.' - Michael Jordan'Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.' - Henry Ford

'Players that have ENERGY when they're on the bench are far more likely to impact games in a positive way when they're in the game.' –Tom Crean (Tom Crean)

'Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.' - Helen Keller

'Stay focused. Your start does not determine how you're going to finish.'- Herm Edwards

'I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.'- Estee Lauder

'Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.'- Michael Jordan

'I failed my way to success.' - Thomas Edison

Early in his pro tennis career, Andre Agassi couldn’t beat a player named Boris Becker.

Agassi particularly struggled with Becker’s serve.

“His serve was something the game had never seen before,” Agassi explained.

Studying film of Becker, “I started to realize,” Agassi

Netflix Culture — Seeking Excellence

Netflix says what makes them special is how much they:

1. Encourage decision-making by employees
2. Share information openly, broadly & deliberately
3. Communicate candidly & directly
4. Keep only highly effective people
5. Avoid rules

'As coaches, we can do preparation. On the court, we can be yelling things out. But when the players and teammates are talking to each other on the court, that's what makes a team good.'- Jeff Hornacek

'The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.' - Aristotle Onassis