Jason Kidd Quotes

If the play-caller has confidence in you, you can feel it on the headset. You can feel it by the way he's calling plays.

You have to give guys tools to win with, and if they have success with them then they believe in you. If you don't have anything in your bag to work with, then they won't believe.

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing.

That's how you get a performance - they put trust in you.

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing. You have to be a salesman, and you have to get your players, particularly your leaders, to believe in what you're trying to accomplish on the basketball floor.

I can remember having meetings with my coaches when things were going bad. I told them, 'Hey, we've got to be positive. This is the time we need to step up. You've got to make sure they know everything is going to be okay. Keep teaching. Once they see you are down, you lose them and that can't happen.'

To show my quarterbacks how much I believe in them, I let them pick their favorite plays that we'll run in the game. On the nights before a game we'll sit down in a hotel conference room and we'll have six third-down calls for certain distances.

It is good for a manager to believe in the ability that you've got and give you the confidence to go out and enjoy your football.

You can tell when coaches have a confidence in you.

I've got the best coaches in the world. I've got confidence in them, and they've got confidence in me.

We need to trust our coaches. Unless we trust them we can't get the result.

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

The thing about playing basketball in Houston was we had a great coach, great system, and we had guys that believed in me. Once you get that belief in you, it's easy to play basketball, so, we really never had so-called role players.

Don may yawn at the idea, which he often does, but the great thing about Don, he has confidence in me and Mike and Ed and Leslie and Steve, that we're not going go out and do stories that will put people to sleep.

I believe in Coach Louis Wong. He is so much more than just a football coach.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Players respond to coaches who really have their best interests at heart.

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.

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.

Your teammates give you the confidence. They give me the confidence all year, all postseason.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

I can let the team do the talking for me.

It's always good when followers believe in their leaders, but it's even better when leaders believe in their followers.

Arsene knows what he wants and knows how to get the best out of you - that is why he gets such an impressive response from his players.

If guys buy into the system, believe in their coach, that goes a long way.