Earl Weaver Quotes

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

I've been the captain of my wrestling team, my college team, so to me, I've been in that leadership role for a very long time.

Good captains know the strengths and weaknesses of their teams and make decisions accordingly.

I have been doing this for a long, and it is the players who learn who you need to work with. You have to coach them to think and understand the game. If they cannot, then you have to tell them, 'You have to do this anyway,' but the best thing to do is say, 'Listen, if he is doing this, then maybe you have to do that.'

Football management is about managing people.

It's about what the players are doing. My job is facilitate that. My job is to put them in positions to succeed. My job is to listen to their ideas, take them if they're good, quietly push them to the side if they're not. My job is to help them grow.

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

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

You can lead a team in a lot of different ways. It can be talking to somebody who is down or, during the course of a game, looking to penetrate and then dropping the ball off to someone else for an easy bucket.

I have three tools at my disposal - my whistle, my body language and my talk. It is a question of how I marry them up to try to get the players around to my way of thinking.

I'm not comparing myself with anyone, but I am very confident about my captaincy, as I have already led India and in the IPL also. I have confidence I can bring out each player's ability fully and also give them a lot of confidence... I would like to stick to what I know best and what I have confidence in.

On the playing side, a lot of guys I played under were pretty good managers.

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

My job as a coach is to make good decisions. It's not to go out there and block or tackle.

If you want to know how to handle a crew, it's great to be part of a crew.

When you become a head coach, you've played the game; you've coached the game. You have a great understanding of what happens at every level.

As with any skill, you have to work at leadership. Watch how the best do it, review what you've done, and look at what you might do.

MS has always been a bowler's captain.

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.

If you give time and space to players, they will make good decisions and score goals.

I think Unai did a great job and was a great leader, and a fantastic coach.

As a captain, you sit on the sidelines and it's evident the best place to bat is up front.

But the art of management has not changed. The art of it is still 80 to 90 per cent man-management. It is just a matter of getting the best out of what you have got.

I believe I have demonstrated the ability to coach and work well under pressure.

Being a point guard in this league, you have to balance out people - the emotions and stuff like that.