I never had a problem with a coach in my life, no matter what team I've been in on.
I've never been a fan of individual awards because football is such a team sport. There's so many things that goes into making plays. It's about teammates trusting one another and working together.
I have this amazing team that I trust. I completely go with their decisions on things. I don't have to go in and micromanage everything. And I think the other thing is, you start to sort of. . . I wouldn't say relax, because I've never relaxed. But I've tried to have more confidence in the things I like, or the things other people like. That's really the big thing in this job, to second-guess yourself all the time.
I wasn't a jock in school, and by the 10th grade, when I was in boarding school I was carrying water buckets for the girls' hockey team. I was the kid with long hair and glasses and acne trying to learn how to play guitar and piano in the music center. I was not an athlete past the age of 13 or 14 when they start throwing the ball really fast.
The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.
I think to compare any time you win a Stanley Cup would be unfair to all the players from all the teams.
In addition to relentlessly resourceful, you want a tough and a calm cofounder.
I'm always fighting to make the team anyway. I'm always preparing like I'm one of the bottom guys, trying to make the team.
Marshawn Lynch is the heart of this team. If he's not going, the Seahawks aren't going.
The phrases and language used everyday in an organization can in fact affect the way your team makes decisions and conducts themselves.
Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.
The goal of an effective leader is to recondition your team to be solution focused rather than problem focused.
In leadership, there are no words more important than trust. In any organization, trust must be developed among every member of the team if success is going to be achieved
Selling is the most important skill as an entrepreneur. I'm not talking so much about selling a product so much as selling yourself, team, and deals.
It came down to the obvious point that all the union cared about was the money and these other things certainly didn't matter enough. It's a tremendous situation that they have and it has become burdensome for the teams. Yes, we're asking for some relief going forward. I don't think that was unreasonable.
I hear that players tend to burn out of basketball, but I absolutely never had that experience myself. There were many times in my life where I got cut from a team I wanted to make, or didn't get playing time in high school, and even into college. But setbacks always inspired me to work harder, spend more time in the gym, play more, learn more, and watch more basketball.
Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we're going to win.
I think that it was a great feeling and probably a little bit more special because of the length of time that had passed before we won, but I think more importantly, it was just a great feeling because this team had such strong leadership and they had great chemistry.
I put that in my management's hands and my company's hands. We sit down all together, the family, D-Block, my management and I go build with KOCH, the distributor. You open up your own sites, you get your MySpace, you get your websites and get your little digital team on the side. . . and that's how you handle that.
The thing about it is, all those races we lost, we won this race together. We won it as a team.