Sourav Ganguly Quotes

It's not my job to hold your hand. It's my job to take motivated people and show them how to become better.

When you're younger, it's about, 'How can I get better? How can I become the player that I want to be?' As you get older, it's, 'How can this football team improve?' While all along getting better along the way.

A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential; a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself.

Each person holds so much power within themselves that needs to be let out. Sometimes they just need a little nudge, a little direction, a little support, a little coaching, and the greatest things can happen.

Confidence is a crucial building block in a successful career, and embracing it fully will take you places you never thought possible. With proper guidance and hard work, anyone can become more confident. Once you pass a certain point, you'll feel it from the inside.

For every guy, there is an opportunity to be a lot better than he thought he could be. We can't all be the star of the team, but we can be a star in our life. That's where you set your goal.

We must provide leadership ... that erases self doubt.

We could all use more coaching.

I'm used to being coached. Something I learned long ago is that a coach is trying to make you better and to be the best version of yourself.

The Girl Scouts is an organization that constantly gives you new goals to achieve and that's what life is all about.

Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.

The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.

I'm ambitious in the sense that I raise the bar high for myself.

Greater self-esteem produces greater success, and greater success produces more high self-esteem, so it keeps on spiraling up.

I don't intimidate anyone. Instead, I try to get people to believe in themselves.

I could have coached better.

If it weren't for the mentorship and guidance from people like my mother, James Brown and others, I wouldn't have been able to make something of my life.

Lead yourself whenever your boss' leadership deteriorates. When your boss doesn't praise what you do, praise yourself. When your boss doesn't make you big, make yourself big. Remember, if you have done your best, failure does not count.

I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.

Transformed people transform people.

Leadership is an intense journey into yourself. You can use your own style to get anything done. It's about being self-aware. Every morning, I look in the mirror and say, 'I could have done three things better yesterday.'

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.

I always liked the idea of leadership and being a captain.