Rudyard Kipling Quotes

As a leader, you want your team to play as you are.

I've always found that in a team of 15 people, it's a little different than in a team of 40 or 50 people. If I name two or three people captains, inevitably you're disempowering more than you're empowering.

Culture is very important to the Mavs.... It isn't about who talks the most or the loudest. It is about the demeanor and attitude he brings.

A player can't request on what position he wants to play, and it is the same with the captaincy. One should respect this, there are hierarchies.

I think the tone that the head coach sets transcends to the team.

Peter Stoger is very, very inspirational, communicating a lot, being open and approachable for the players.

I think every coach brings their own personality.

Mascherano's impact as a leader is more important inside the squad, and Messi's leadership is more important in the pitch.

Respect is the most essential thing about captaincy. Respect between the captain and players is important. It is give and take.

In Naples, I was very lucky to find my players adapted to my way of football. They were strong as players and strong from a human point of view.

It is nothing new for the management of an international cricket team to wrestle with the amount of freedom afforded to players.

The quarterback position is a role of leadership, and I feel just who I am as a person, I bring different types of leadership to the table.

You always need time to adapt to a new manager. But in football if you don't get a result, you are under pressure.

If I can't get the captains to respond appropriately and show the leadership I expect, how is anyone else going to respond?

Achieving vulnerability-based trust (where team members have overcome their need for invulnerability) is difficult because in the course of career advancement and education, most successful people learn to be competitive with their peers, and protective of their reputations. It is a challenge for them to turn those instincts off for the good of the team, but that is exactly what is required.

It's much easier when your team's winning. When your team starts to lose, that's where a lot of these quarterback controversies divide a locker room. The key, as a pro, is to be a pro.

The outstanding coach is a teacher that gets all his squad to accept the role that he considers to be the most important for the welfare of all.

You'd like to see your team reasonably happy, but that's not your job. Gain their respect and get them to accept their roles

I, more than anything, obviously the presidency is the people, and it's been interesting the emotions in the last few months. What you realize is that you may never have the team that is together in the same way, under the same pressures, and the attachments that you make to folks from your chief of staff down to.

Gary Neville is the club captain but has been injured for the best part of a year now - and Giggsy's taken on the mantlepiece.

The coach's job is to be part servant in helping each player reach his goals within the team concept.

Players have to buy into your system and be willing to accept the role, you, as the coach, have assigned to them

How good can we expect to be if our best player is not our best teammate

Without a terrific leader, you're not going to have a Great Group. But it is also true that you're not going to have a great leader without a Great Group.

You must learn how to hold a team together. You must lift some men up, calm others down, until finally they've got one heartbeat. Then you've got yourself a team.