If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?

To win is always good for the feeling of the whole team.

Collegiality is crucial to the success of our mission. We could not do the job the Constitution assigns to us if we didn’t – to use one of Justice Antonin Scalia’s favorite expressions – ‚Get over it!‘

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest – and everybody agreed rugby was. It’s a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.

When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It’s just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.

If I’m going to get you to do stuff, I need to lead you. I can’t just order you to do it.

Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.

Even the best and biggest teams in the world do not reach finals of tournaments.

My job is to play quarterback, and I’m going to do that the best way I know how, because I owe that to my teammates regardless of who is out there on the field with me.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Over the years, all my coaches and my teammates have contributed a lot to shape my career. I can never forget their contribution and help.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

When you’re drowning, you don’t say ‚I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,‘ you just scream.

When individual members of the team are highly disciplined, they can be trusted and, therefore, allowed to operate with very little oversight.

I’m more than comfortable just sitting back and scoring 21, 22 points or whatever and getting 10, 11 assists whatever the case might be. More than comfortable with that. It’s just a matter of the pieces that you have around you and what you can do to elevate everybody else.

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

From a young age, I learned to focus on the things I was good at and delegate to others what I was not good at. That’s how Virgin is run. Fantastic people throughout the Virgin Group run our businesses, allowing me to think creatively and strategically.

I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

We care for each other and care about our family, and we are both working towards the same goal.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.

I’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.

With colleagues in the work environment, we fail to see the source of their envy or the reason for their manipulations; our attempts at influencing them are based on the assumptions that they want the same things as ourselves.

Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It’s a technology that brings people together.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

It seems like when I was growing up there was more compromise, wanting to work with each other, and I think all of them – all of the lawmakers – have hearts to do what’s right, and they all are passionate about it.

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top – I’m afraid that’s not quite right.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relationships, fracture teams and organizations, and create havoc in people’s lives.

The colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

‚Bellyache‘ is totally fictional. I like writing about things that aren’t real. The song is about not trusting anyone and then putting trust in yourself and realizing that you don’t know what you are doing, either. Or realizing that things you do with a group of people that you think are cool in the moment are ultimately all on you.

To be recognized for the hard work my team and I put into ‚Starboy‘ is an honor.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.

As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

I think we understand that for the Court to work well, we have to not only respect but genuinely like each other.

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn’t set out to build a business empire… For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that’s going to make a real difference to other people’s lives.

I’ve thought sometimes about what I like about football, and it’s playing together.

We came up with TDE. As competitive as rap is, and as much as we’re trying to exceed the standards we set for ourselves, we take their wins as our wins, too.

Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January.

Football is a team game and none can survive or excel without the help of the other.

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.