Thoughts On The Team From Championship Coaches & Players

THE TEAM

All championship teams always posess the most important factor of success and that is great team unity. Listed below are a few comments from championship coaches and players on why their team won championships.

Red Auerbach – former coach of the Boston Celtics – won 8 straight national titles.
“Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team.”

Bill Sharman – coached ABA and NBA teams to championships.
“The only way to win is to sacrifice for the good of the team.”

Vince Lombardi – legendary professional football coach.
“The Packers won the Super Bowl primarily because the team had a lot of love for each other and this unity helped us to hold up under pressure.”John Wooden – greatest coach in the history of our game.

“Our titles would not have been possible without the unselfishness displayed by all our teams, the team wins, not the individuals.”Wilt Chamberlain – greatest offensive player in the history of basketball and member of two NBA championship teams. Holds NBA record for most points in a game, 100, and most rebounds, 55. “This is a team game and one man doesn’t win and one man doesn’t lose. In the end the best team usually wins.”

Jon Havlicek – former MVP of NBA and member of the World Champions, the Boston Celtics.
 “We win because we play together as a team"

Bill Walton – considered to be the greatest college player of all time.
“It hurts when people talk as if I’m the only player on the team. This is a team game, and I’m just one of the guys on the team. One-on-one is the most overrated part of this game. Five people playing together as a team decides the game.”

It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit, and when an individual loses himself in something he thinks is better than he, the team, you become a winner.