Sean Dyche Quotes

Managers are never 100 percent in control. You're at the mercy of the players. When you're a player, you're driving. I'm the navigator. I hardly ever think about driving anymore, unless there's two out in the bottom of the ninth.

There's not much simplifying. You gotta know what you gotta know. That's how the quarterback position is, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

You don't know how many times I was in the huddle, asking my teammates to help me call a play.

Business is another kind of world that I don't think is as passionate. It is not the pressure to perform as you have in football. It is more about strategy, skill, about how you deal with all the information you have. Some of the things from football I can bring to business, and some things from business I can bring to football.

In football, it's not enough just to be amazing, but you also have to have a clear head. If you're not calm, it becomes very difficult.

I have a lot of empathy for quarterbacks.

The team aspect of football and just playing quarterback, having the ball in your hands, having to make the plays, that was definitely something I loved.

Playing quarterback is hard enough.

You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.

The bottom line is that it's the NFL, and there's going to be competition wherever you go. That's the way I look at it. I've had competition in high school. I've had competition in college, and that's part of the game. That's part of how you improve as a quarterback.

I've been in just about every situation as a player and coach and manager. I've been in the playoffs, World Series, and I know how to get there.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

I don't miss being in the dugout - I'll make that clear.

Sometimes I miss coaching, but often things are not how they appear in football.

In politics, as in business, leadership is crucial.

Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

Leadership is an ever-evolving position.

Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.

What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it's like a coach-player relationship.

I'm not in charge of making moves, you know. I'm in charge of coaching.

And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.

The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.

As an Oklahoma quarterback, you learn to perform under pressure.

I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful.