Richie Benaud Quotes

In the IPL, you are often single-handedly responsible for the fortunes of your team. It makes you more responsible as a player.

I've always said it's just a game of cricket. The only pressure I get is when I feel I've let the team down.

Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.

The decisions I've made have not always been the most popular, but when I look back, I want to know I've played for good football teams.

Being a leader requires being confident enough in your own decisions and those of your team to own them when they fail. The very best leaders take the blame but share the credit.

To say that the captain makes the team lose or win is not correct.

If things are not going well on the field, then it's up to me to lead by example.

You can be one of the best players, stats-wise, but if you're not winning, all that stuff doesn't matter.

If I'm chosen for the Asian Cup, then I must help the team win. That's the bottom line.

You're the quarterback, if you lose games... it's the head coach and the quarterback. If you're not winning, it's on you.

You will always be judged as a Liverpool player but, as a captain, you will be judged on what you win, basically. If you're doing well, and the team is winning everything, you become a very good captain.

Head coach and quarterback have a record attached to them. And I have always felt a great responsibility to help lead our team to win games, the division and ultimately the Super Bowl.

In my teams, when we win, we all win, and when we lose, I lose.

Once you get on the playing field it's not about whether you're liked or not liked. All that matters is to play at a high level and do whatever it takes to help your team win. That's what it's about.

You've got to coach worrying about your entire team: whether that gets you a championship or whether that gets you fired. I think it allows you to coach free. You're coaching with freedom because you know you're doing what you think is right.

If you're in the best team in the world, you or your teammate have to win.

I enjoy watching competitive people. You watch 'em come and you watch 'em go, and how they try to be the best. How they handle when they're not. How they handle when they are. How they get along together on the court.

When they come here, what we are looking for them to do is step up to the plate, take responsibility and get the big innings, the centuries - or take a lead with the ball.

When you win, everything is everything. But when you lose, it's all about Allen Iverson and Larry Brown. When we win, I know that I get the praise and Larry Brown gets the praise, but when we lose, it's on me and Larry Brown. That's something that I have to learn to accept and deal with.

Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.

I don't know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It's a dream.

I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.

The thing a player has to ask himself: 'Do you want to choose winning over standing out?' Dwyane Wade made that choice, and I don't think he gets enough credit.

I'm going to go out and try to be the best player I can be and help the Chicago Bears win.

The one thing that I know is that you win with good people.