Arjen Robben Quotes

Years are not important, my dear.

As you get older, you should be better at coaching. You learn your lessons. You keep thinking and learning about it, you should be better than you.

You can't put an age on power.

I think you live and learn each year, whether you're a head coach, coordinator, or business manager. You learn different things that work and different things that don't.

As I've gotten older, I've been given more responsibility. I think I've grown into that.

The distance between the adolescent and the true adult is about five thousand miles, but the distance between the adult and the elder is almost as large.

You shall more command with years than with your weapons.

Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.

Tracy, the leader of the CDH group, looks at me with eyes that seem to belong to someone three times her age. It's something beyond wisdom, all the way to insanity and back. It's like her eyes are scarred from all the things she's seen.

Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.

They say I need to be seasoned; they say I need to be stewed. They say, 'We need to boil all the hope out of him -- like us -- and then he'll be ready.'

Anyone who doesn't learn from Ian Rush needs shooting.

We know that leadership is very much related to change. As the pace of change accelerates, there is naturally a greater need for effective leadership.

The one quality that can be developed by studious reflection and practice is the leadership of men.

You have to learn to be a follower before you become a leader.

Command is often not what you do but the way you do it.

A leader is a coach, not a judge.

Leaders make things better and that requires change.

The older I get the wiser and more skillful I get.

Wherever there is power there is age.

The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm.

Age is no guarantee of maturity.

Leadership is what you need to learn next

Good leaders don't tell people what to do, they give teams capability and inspiration.

Good leadership means leading the way, not hectoring other people to do things your way.