Robert Green Quotes

A captain has to be able to look a player in the eye before he starts his run-up or goes out to bat.

If the national coach lets decisions be made from outside, he's lost the team.

The great irony of management is that the higher up you go, the less actual control you have. When you are but a humble coder, you make the computer do exactly what you want; when you're a manager, you only hope that people understand what you want, and then trust/pray that they do it both correctly and in a timely manner.

I am learning how to delegate and how to empower people.

I have to give him and I have to have 100 percent of his confidence…. If I do not have his confidence, someone else should be chief of staff.

The coin of the realm of leadership is trust and confidence.

I always accept the decisions of the coach.

You grow year after year with responsibility, and for me, it's not important who has the armband but that everyone on the pitch gives the right signals.

Even without tactical discipline, what is important for a team is having players with maturity and a sense of responsibility.

How do you govern by captaining the ship? How do you win without the trust of the crew?

Leadership is about stepping up when it's the appropriate time and then making sure everyone knows that we're all on the same page.

If you're a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

It's critical that the manager has the respect of players so he can make the moves that he feels is appropriate without having somebody go to the papers. They respect you. So you respect them back.

I think trust is primarily built through relationships, and it's important because it's the foundational currency that a leader has with his team or his followers.

I realize that as the quarterback, you have to assume some sort of leadership role because you have to talk in the huddle on every play, and you're essentially giving out orders to the team. But in my mind, I have to prove myself on the field before I can start asserting a leadership role.

A leader must be a good listener. He must be willing to take counsel. He must show a genuine concern and love for those under his stewardship.

You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.

As a captain, I think it's important that the players really know who you are and what you stand for, what your beliefs are, and to be consistent in those if things are going good or things are going bad.

If I'm a leader, I have a mission.

When you're the director, you kinda do all the work.

I have unbelievable trust in my offensive line that they will get the job done. Not only them, but the running backs and as a quarterback, I have to do my job in getting the ball in the right people's hands and doing what I do best.

A manager doesn't hear the cheers.

If you're a coach, and you don't have trust with players, you've got no chance, and your credibility is zero. And that's why it's so important to tell them the truth. If you have something that you're upset about, tell them the truth. If they're doing something wrong, tell them the truth.

But I just think as a captain, everybody's different.

Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.