A vital team characteristic is the ability to overcome adversity. Any team acquires experience and endurance as it learns to fight back. This in turn builds the kind of character which seldom crumbles at a time of crisis or testing.
Tom LandryThere is only a half step difference between the champions and those who finish on the bottom. And much of that half step is mental.
Tom LandryIn my opinion, character is the most important determinant of a person's success, achievement and ability to handle adversity.
Tom LandryLeadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do but to achieve what they want to achieve.
Tom Landry