There are five fundamental qualities that make every team great: communication, trust, collective responsibility, caring and pride. I like to think of each as a separate finger on the fist. Any one individually is important. But all of them together are unbeatable

It takes courage not only to make decisions, but to live with those decisions afterward

The worst thing we can do is put the (other) team in a one-and-one.

The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions. Not me. I don't want to be a manager or a dictator. I want to be a leader-and leadership is ongoing, adjustable, flexible, and dynamic. As such, leaders have to maintain a certain amount of discretion

In leadership, there are no words more important than trust.

We lost, and that's the main thing that went wrong.

Effective teamwork begins and ends with communication