Mike Singletary Quotes

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

You can't put a price on what Mark McGwire brings to the Cardinals organization. The responsibility he accepts is as great as any number of home runs.

I think that a leader is someone that needs to make an impact on, off the cricket field and in their lives as well.

Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.

At Girl Scouts, we create leaders.

I think every player should think that he's a difference maker.

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

I love baseball. The game allowed me the influence to impact kids in a positive way. This gives me a chance to talk to some social issues.

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.

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

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.

We are defined by how we use our power.

Leadership does matter.

As a player, I could have the ball in my hands; I could kind of dictate what happens. I'm still learning, a young coach with young players. Sometimes I'm going to see things. They're not going to see what I see. So it's being able to translate that and help them see what I'm seeing.

I just want to be a leader.

I want to succeed, but I want to make an impact in the people's lives that I'm around. So that means teammates, fans, coaches, staff, everybody.

We are a great fit, and I'm excited about the chance to influence a new generation of young footballers alongside Warrior.

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

I think I had a lot of impact on every player. Maybe it sounds cocky, but if I don't feel I have an impact or a big impact, I wouldn't be able to be excited about my work every day.

Coaches around the country are influencing the next generation of men in a positive way.

I've watched what coaches do for young people in our country.

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.

Those of us involved in football must be aware of the power we have to help. We also have a responsibility to return to society all that society has given to us.

There's not a day goes by that I don't ask, What would Coach Saban do?