Paul Lambert Quotes

I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.

It's not always the player that's talking in the dressing room that becomes a good manager. It's a feeling that you need to develop, it's a feeling that needs to grow on you.

I worked under a lot of 'top-class managers at Spurs and had to take over as 'caretaker a couple of times when things were not going well. I know what's required.

I'm very much a leader in a lot of the work that I do or that I've done in my career.

David Bruce, I think, is one of the outstanding persons for whom I've ever worked. He had a sense of balance. He was interested in everything that went on in the Embassy. He delegated authority, but at the same time when you needed the Ambassador's help on anything, you could go to him, and he would immediately respond.

I was captain in Atletico at 19, playing in the same team as Demetrio Albertini, who won three Champions Leagues, and Sergi Barjuan from Barcelona, who had won everything, and they were 32, 33. I was a kid as captain, so I wasn't the real captain, just a kid learning from them.

One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.

You work with great directors and terrible directors, and so you learn; you take what you think will work for you.

I can remember having meetings with my coaches when things were going bad. I told them, 'Hey, we've got to be positive. This is the time we need to step up. You've got to make sure they know everything is going to be okay. Keep teaching. Once they see you are down, you lose them and that can't happen.'

I think that there is an element where leadership is lonely, but I also believe that it doesn't have to be like that.

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.

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.

At LSU, I was a true leader. I know I made some mistakes, but I think I was a leader for my teammates.

The hardest thing to do is be a point guard, learn how to be a point guard in the NBA as a young player because you gotta earn your respect first of all the old guys, all the old heads. You gotta command where to go, know the plays.

Coach K was great. We had a couple of individual conversations and he definitely taught me a lot of things.

Well, I think I've had the opportunity to be around some great coaches and players. And I have been able to learn a little bit, something different from every single one that I've been around.

It's hard to be a leader right away, but playing quarterback, you have to.

I've been very fortunate that I've played under a lot of very good captains.

It's hard to be the point guard, especially playing with a young team.

Just because you're made England captain, it doesn't mean that you suddenly know everything about captaincy.

I began my journey as a captain when I was just 21-22 and leading the Indian side for so many years has helped me also grow as a person. My growth as a person pretty much has happened on the ground along with teammates.

LeBron is like a coach. He is a coach on the floor. He has a great basketball IQ.

Managing is a tough job. When you're young, you just think it's a natural progression - I'm good at this, so I'm going to be good at that - and it's not that way at all.

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.