You Win in the Locker Room First Quotes

“When you lead with integrity you won't always win, but you will always do the right thing.”
― Jon Gordon, You Win in the Locker Room First: The 7 C's to Build a Winning Team in Business, Sports, and Life

“It doesn't matter how much success you have in your career; if you fail at home you are a failure.”
― Jon Gordon, You Win in the Locker Room First: The 7 C's to Build a Winning Team in Business, Sports, and Life

“Teams that are not connected at the top crumble at the bottom.”
― Jon Gordon, You Win in the Locker Room First: The 7 C's to Build a Winning Team in Business, Sports, and Life

“it's not just communication that helps a team be successful, but rather the collaboration that follows. Communication without collaboration can lead to underperformance,”
― Jon Gordon, You Win in the Locker Room First: The 7 C's to Build a Winning Team in Business, Sports, and Life

“Never a bad day, only bad moments.”
― Jon Gordon, You Win in the Locker Room First: The 7 C's to Build a Winning Team in Business, Sports, and Life

“if you focus on the fruit and ignore the root, the tree will die, but if you continue to care for the root and focus on your culture, process, people, and purpose, then you'll always have a great supply of fruit.”
― Jon Gordon, You Win in the Locker Room First: The 7 C's to Build a Winning Team in Business, Sports, and Life

“it is your culture that will be the driving force to create the resiliency, toughness, passion, and attitude to overcome the obstacles in your way.”
― Jon Gordon, You Win in the Locker Room First: The 7 C's to Build a Winning Team in Business, Sports, and Life

“Culture”
― Jon Gordon, You Win in the Locker Room First: The 7 C's to Build a Winning Team in Business, Sports, and Life

“You have to be yourself. Everyone else is taken.”
― Jon Gordon, You Win in the Locker Room First: The 7 C's to Build a Winning Team in Business, Sports, and Life

“Transformational coaches invest in the root and, over time, it produces a lot of fruit.”
― Jon Gordon, You Win in the Locker Room First: The 7 C's to Build a Winning Team in Business, Sports, and Life

“It wasn't enough to just build a team culture. To have sustained success, we needed a winning organizational culture, and I knew that by working closely with the leadership group to define and set the culture, we would be able to have that. I needed the owner and leaders to buy in and be an integral part of the process. Their buy-in needed to be as deep as the players”
― Jon Gordon, You Win in the Locker Room First: The 7 C's to Build a Winning Team in Business, Sports, and Life

“To develop a strong culture on the team level, we started to evaluate players on their character and attitudes in addition to their football skills. Changes to the roster were not solely based on the players' abilities on the field. We also looked very closely at the intangibles that each player would bring to the locker room. We wanted to have team members who were going to positively represent the organization on and off the field. It was important that we had players who were going to be good teammates and citizens.”
― Jon Gordon, You Win in the Locker Room First: The 7 C's to Build a Winning Team in Business, Sports, and Life