Patrick Beverley Quotes

Football management is about managing people.

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

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

Bad ballplayers make good managers.

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 think I have been able to slow down a little bit and really work on different things... I think I improved on being a leader on the court. Controlling the game, controlling the pace... that is where I have grown.

It's up to a manager to understand his players.

To lead a group of players is to lead a group of people with different ways of thinking. You have to be prepared for that and know more than just about football. You have to speak a lot to the players, have to make them feel what you expect of them. Have to convince them. Therefore, it's very important for a coach to have a life outside football.

As a captain, I just want to lead the team properly.

As the captain of the team, my job involves more than just playing. I have to talk to the players and motivate them.

You don't just come in and say, 'Bam, I'm mature; I'm the leader.' It took time for me to grow into this and learn how to talk to certain players and how to handle certain situations.

The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.

A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can.

I figured managing people was obvious - I'd tell someone what they needed to do and they'd do what I wanted. It turns out that's not the case. It was frustrating at first.

You have to be able to psychologically help your players, support-wise, be in touch with them, so I think managing people is very important.

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

I think management is about just that - managing people via man-to-man skills.

Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.

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.

The thing I'm most focused on today is, how am I maximizing the effectiveness of the leadership team, and what am I doing to nurture it?

A coach coaches. That's what he does. That's what he's good at. He's not managing people. He manages his players, but that's different.

I talk to the players, either individually or as a group, what I'm feeling, and I think the players appreciate that. And I think they respond to that.

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.

I can't be a manager, because I think it's too tough managing 30 players thinking in different ways.

I can lead my team.