"Players win games, teams win championships."
"Let's face it: Most companies in most industries have a kind of tunnel vision. They chase the same opportunities that everyone else is chasing, they miss the same opportunities that everyone else is missing. It's the companies that see a different game that win big. The most important question for innovators today is: What do you see that the competition doesn't see?"
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Source: Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).
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