Directions: Read the following quotes and choose your favorite: Journal Activity:

“Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a
society work, a civilization work.” - Vince Lombardi (football coach)
“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”
- Henry Ford (pioneer of the assembly-line production method)
“There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of
others.” - George Shinn (former owner of Charlotte, now New Orleans, Hornets basketball team)
“It is amazing what can be accomplished when nobody cares about who gets the credit.”
- Robert Yates (politician in the 1700s)
“Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success.” - Author Unknown
“I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the
team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.” - Mia Hamm (retired American soccer player)
“Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their
friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal
and help one another achieve it.”
- Bill Bradley (American hall of fame basketball player, Rhodes scholar and former three-term Democratic U. S. Senator from
New Jersey)
“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.”
- Michael Jordan (former American basketball player, businessman and majority owner of the Charlotte Bobcats)
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
- Helen Keller (American author, political activist, lecturer, and the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.)
“The strength of the team is each individual member...the strength of each member is the team.”
- Phil Jackson (widely considered one of the greatest coaches in the history of the NBA)
“Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be
achieved.” - Mattie Stepanek (advocate on behalf of peace, people with disabilities, and children with life-threatening
conditions who died one month before his 14th birthday)
“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take
the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” - Oprah Winfrey (American television host, actress, producer, and
philanthropist)
“Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.” - Casey Stengel
(baseball hall of famer)

Directions–Write ½a page explaining why you choose your favorite quote from the list above. Employers rate the ability to be a “team player” as one of the most important qualities and characteristics of their current (and future) employees (i. e., the job candidate). Whymight this be so? How does this relate to the quote that you choose?