Eoin Morgan Quotes

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

The quarterback position is a role of leadership, and I feel just who I am as a person, I bring different types of leadership to the table.

I've always been a leader. Every team I've played on, I've led my way.

I think for me, or for anyone who plays the quarterback position, it's almost an unspoken word when you think about leadership. Some guys can be a leader and be a running back or a lineman, or wide receiver, strong safety, or linebacker. But when you speak of quarterbacks, it's automatically a default that you're supposed to be a leader.

There is only one way to respond to the issue of leadership and that is to lead.

I've put a lot of thought into being a leader.

I take the role of leadership as the most important job I have. Yes, it's the passes and all the different things you have to do, but it's leading and it's in the huddle and it's in the weight room and the meeting rooms. It's that role I think comes first.

I've always tried to be a leader.

The main thing about being captain is keeping your own performance good, and then everything else should fall into place off the back of that.

Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.

When you are captain, you are never speaking for yourself.

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

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.

Every team that I've played on, I've either been the captain or co-captain.

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.

Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.

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

Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action.

I always liked the idea of leadership and being a captain.

I think a captain is someone who captains on the cricket field but, most of the leadership that happens is off the cricket field. It's very easy to captain people on the cricket field, but if you can start leading them off the cricket field, and show them that trust, what you have in them.

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

I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives.

Leadership is one of sports' intangibles. Guys can score, guys can fight, guys can skate faster than anybody else. But not everybody can say, 'Follow me.'

Leadership means setting a moral tone.

I miss being the focal point of the team - the guy everyone looks to for decisions. And guidance.