David Lauren Quotes

Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there because you believe you are good in your field, and you can contribute, not because you are going to get a lot of fame or whatever when you get back.

I have to try to help lead my team to win by any means.

As captain, I want us to be ambitious; I want us to be winners - but above all, I hope we will show how much we love the game by passing the ball and achieving success through our technical and tactical approach.

People say I'm a natural leader, but I just go out there and do my job and do whatever it takes to win; that's what comes with being a leader, those are the sort of things I've done as I've tried to grow into a leader and I'm just going to continue to do them.

Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody.

I work hard. The staff and crew see how much energy I put into this project, and it makes them step up.

Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.

I've always said that if you can get the best people who are good at what they do, but more importantly are passionate about what they do, you'll succeed.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

I mean, you have to be able - you have to have made the commitment within yourself to do whatever it takes to get the job done and to try to inspire other people to do it, because obviously the first rule is you can't do it by yourself.

True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.

As an athlete, you choose your sport and are drawn into it but your passion should never be driven by fame and fortune but a desire to create something special that people will always remember.

You need a commitment which is long term and a commitment to leadership, because that's the only way you build excellence.

That's the only thing that got me here is my teammates. My teammates and my coach. That's the only reason I'm here.

A good director is like a good coach. You want to play for him. You want to really show him your good stuff. You don't want to let that person down. Ridley Scott is one of those guys.

I've just got to be the best player that I can be and worry about what I've got to do to help out the team, and be the best team out there we can be, and the best player I can be out there on the field to help out the team.

I try to give my best for the team, help the team, and try and go out there and play the best I can for myself as well.

I pursued to have my team win as much as we could, and it doesn't happen without great teammates.

All my coaching life, I am the same, always on the touchline, the same way. I am in the game all the time. I am focused.

Good leaders, good team players, know how to make the most of everything.

Through hard work, passion and determination my teammates and I transformed TFC and made it one of the best clubs in MLS and in North America.

You can always work around this, that or the other, but if everybody's in there because they love it and they just want to do it the best they can, that's an ideal situation that you don't always get.

I do everything I can for the team's success.

Right from the start of my career I was surrounded by people like Jacques Kallis, Mark Boucher and Graeme Smith, who gave 100 percent in every performance.

The most important thing is that I bring a lot to the team wherever I am playing.