A Quote by Daley Thompson

Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.

Daley Thompson

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Leadership Good Many Sport Teamwork Teamwork And Leadership Things

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Daley Thompson
English - Athlete
Born: July 30, 1958

My favourite sport at school was rugby. All sports are teamwork, but rugby particularly is about teamwork and I think teamwork is the essence of this.

Gordon Brown

Playing the sport has taught me about teamwork and how to be a good team player, social skills and most importantly, dedication.

P. K. Subban

I decided to write Leadership BS because I was irritated by the hypocrisy in the leadership literature and the fact that many of the people writing leadership books exhibited behavior that was precisely the opposite of what they advocated and also what they claimed they did. Stories did not seem to be a good foundation on which to build a science of leadership.

Jeffrey Pfeffer

The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.

Cyril Falls

I've always played sport, ever since I was little. I played volleyball and I believe sport teaches you a lot, such as teamwork, respect and discipline.

Gisele Bundchen

We hire military veterans because they make great employees. They bring proven technical and leadership skills. They understand teamwork, and they're adaptable. Bottom line, hiring veterans is good for business.

Randall L. Stephenson

Every popular zillion dollar sport has its share of personal scandals around the sport and its leadership.

Rachel Maddow

As Culture Secretary, I realised how you can use sport to do so many other good things for society.

Sajid Javid

My role at Lockheed Martin puts me in contact with extraordinary leaders in many fields - from science and engineering to philanthropy and government. And since we also work closely with our nation's armed forces, we tend to reflect a lot on leadership and how we can inspire successful teamwork, cooperation, and partnerships.

Marillyn Hewson

The modern athlete is an individual corporation. I'm not quite sure it's very good for sport, or good for team work, or those different things that sport says it's about. This is about business.

LeBron James

Despite the increasingly presidential style of political leadership in our country, teamwork is essential.

Bob Ainsworth

Radical transparency fosters goodness in so many ways for the same reasons that bad things are more likely to take place behind closed doors.

Ray Dalio

To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.

Mike Krzyzewski

The lessons I learned in Vietnam and in the NFL reinforced one another: teamwork, sacrifice, responsibility, accountability, and leadership.

Rocky Bleier

In sport, you only see the fighter, but it's teamwork. Without a good team, you will never be the best. In boxing, you have to work with the best coach, the best lawyer, the best manager, the best doctor. Exactly the same principle applies in politics.