Andrew Flintoff Quotes

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.

When I first became captain of the Indian cricket team in 2000, many well-wishers and journalist friends gifted me the classic Mike Brearley book, 'The Art of Captaincy.' I mean no disrespect to the book or Mr, Brearley, who I admire a great deal, but books or team meetings don't make you good captains.

Leaders trust their guts. "Intuition" is one of those good words that has gotten a bad rap. For some reason, intuition has become a "soft" notion. Garbage! Intuition is the new physics. It's an Einsteinian, seven-sense, practical way to make tough decisions. Bottom line, circa 2001 to 2010: The crazier the times are, the more important it is for leaders to develop and to trust their intuition.

Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.

Responsibility makes a player better. I was made the captain of Maharashtra senior team when I was 16 or 17. I know how to take the team forward. I had been through the responsibilities.

Trust your instincts, and the best way to trust them is to practice them.

As an entrepreneur, the latitude of failure and of success is directly correlated to people. I am growing more and more attentive to my first instincts, even if I can't justify them, as they apply to people.

How often has Hitler said to me: 'I know that my decision or action is correct. I cannot explain at the moment why, but I feel that it is right and the future will prove it so'.

I go by the gut. I might not appear to have any talent but I've got plenty of gut instinct.

Sometimes I'll trust my gut more than my head. Logical information might lead me in one direction and my feelings in another. Whereas I would have followed my head ten years ago, now I'm as likely or more likely to go with my gut feeling. It's ironic - you'd think the opposite would be true as you move to the top but it's not.

There are some conditions where you have to trust your intuition.

Learn to let your intuition-gut instinct-tell you when the food, the relationship, the job isn't good for you (and conversely, when what you're doing is just right).

Trust your instincts. If you have no instincts, trust your impulses.

Experience taught me to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper.

If a leader goes with their gut, it should be after listening first to people they trust.

There are times in all of our lives when a reliance on gut or intuition just seems more appropriate - when a particular course of action just feels right.

I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.

You can't second-guess baseball. You can't second-guess yourself.

Everything I do is just really my intuition, and every time I go against my intuition, it's a mistake. Even though I may sit down and analyze and intellectualize something on paper, if I go against my gut feeling, it's wrong.

Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster.

You've got to trust your instincts, your judgment and trust the storytelling that came before and the quality of the acting with the emotion.

Rotary provides training at all levels so that those who have been selected for leadership positions have the opportunity to learn and apply leadership principles to their jobs.

I think the grandfather of the set is the director. He needs to have authority, to do what people want. A warm grandfather; he needs to know his job, to be open.

Leadership is hard to train on.

Warren Buffet told me once and he said always follow your gut. When you have that gut feeling, you have to go with don't go back on it.