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

When you create circumstances together, when you try everything, then you can lose. But you need to show the importance.

There’s been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that’s simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we’ve won when I score 10.

You’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

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.

What we achieve individually is important but it’s never ever more than the team does.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

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

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

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.

We named the book ‚Extreme Ownership‘ because we really found that when we looked at not only at leaders but at teams that were the most successful, we found that the ones that had this attitude of extreme ownership were the ones that did the best, and it’s definitely an attitude that I had.

Working with J Balvin has undoubtedly been an unparalleled experience.

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

When you play sports like tennis, you’re alone, and that’s a good school for life, but it’s also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too – helping others in difficult moments.

We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.

Through the right people focusing on the right things, we can, in time, get on top of a lot if not most of the problems of this world. And that’s what a number of us are trying to do.

I have short goals – to get better every day, to help my teammates every day – but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It’s all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing.

It’s very important to like the people you work with. Otherwise, your job is going to be quite miserable.

I have a good team. It’s good to have a good team.

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

But I’m pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.

I don’t think anyone ever plans to change line-ups, but it’s something that comes with being in bands. I was in a band once and there were always problems – members come and go – and some of the world’s biggest bands have changed line-ups loads!

I play a complicated position in an intensely team-oriented game.

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it’s digging deep, it’s doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

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

People don’t realise how difficult it is to work with people day in and day out that know absolutely nothing.

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

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

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.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it’s not just my way or the highway.

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty… it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

I won’t have to do any major changes to continue my career a long way, hopefully. Just hopefully stay healthy and be able to help a team out as I go through and still play at a pretty high level.

Every time I get in the McLaren I feel more comfortable, my confidence increases and I feel more at home with the team.

I was a good football player, and I had a chance to play with some great players.

Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

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

We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

I’ve been so blessed to play for the greatest coach at a time when our organization has done incredible things. I’ve played with the best teammates. Playing for Mr. Kraft and what his influence on the team has been.

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

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

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.

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

A conductor can’t be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others‘ negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.

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

Synergy is better than my way or your way. It’s our way.

There is something about building up a comradeship – that I still believe is the greatest of all feats – and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

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