Stuart Broad Quotes

I'm not a good one-on-one player.

One of the things I did well as a young kid was to link well with the rest of the team, so I reckon it's something which is natural for me.

Pep has made me understand the game more: not just how I play but also how the team has to play, because I am just a component.

I've learned so much whether it was, I played a lot of team sports, so being part of a team, learning how to be a leader on different teams, and how to deal with the ebb and flow of different games.

Everyone has to understand what the role is - what the role of the player is, the role of the coach is. You're hired to do something. You're paid to do something.

The Red Bulls have done a good job of challenging me to be a leader, not just be a part of team and score goals, but be someone to be counted on.

Showing teams I can do more than just shoot the ball, that's really going to help me out.

In football, I've always been about adapting to what's asked of me, to what my team-mates need from me. I'm a team player.

The top players talk more now, and we have more meetings. We're just trying to get things better. But we still need somebody who could make a difference.

Of course, there will be few people who are sympathetic but you don't become a great team overnight, no matter how much money you have at your disposal.

I think any time you have a super team, whether it's all men or all women or both, what you have are people with very unique strengths that aren't always totally compatible.

I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.

Without constantly pushing my senior colleagues to formulate decisions, I would never be able to learn and know what they are made of.

I consider myself very much a team player.

There's two parts of leadership. You've got to be a good leader - you've got to be somebody that people want to emulate and care about the other people. But the other guys that you have have to accept their leadership. They have to respond to it. That's the chemistry that you never know how that is going to happen.

It's difficult working with someone who is not a team player.

It's not a successful captain that makes a successful team.

I'm at my best when I'm working with really talented people, and I'm there to gently suggest or guide or inspire or contribute whatever I can to their effort.

As a leader, you want your team to play as you are.

I'm quite a social person, quite a communicator, and I like to have the work of other people around.

For running a country, team work is important, and the person at the helm has to enjoy teamwork.

Each director maintains a different personality. Either you get along, or you don't.

Coming in, you're so concerned about learning your job and the things you need to do to be successful individually. Once that's good, you can start to focus on learning guys around you and learning defenses and what they're trying to do to you.

A captain shouldn't be chosen on the amount of goals he's going to score.

I've always been a team player.