Sean McVay Quotes

Some of the best leaders in the world find they learn something every day to be a better leader. Whether it's developing a relationship, learning what someone likes or doesn't like, putting forth the extra effort so guys understand you do what you preach.

I think there is a lot of experiences you have in coaching, and if you learn from the experiences as you go through them, whether it's as a coordinator or position coach, a quality-control coach, a head coach, whatever it might be, and you learn from those mistakes you make.

Coach K always wanted me to talk more, even when I was in college. That's something I'm going to do as I get older.

Dr. Phil was very helpful and caring. I believe he helped all of us there and watching how to better relate, understand, and communicate with our families and loved ones. Dr. Phil recommended reading my new book.

Feedback for leaders is often nuanced and difficult to deliver. That said, hearing you are passive-aggressive from 10 different people described 10 different ways becomes hard to ignore.

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

We could all use more coaching.

Opening up is something I have to learn how to do if I'm going to be in this business.

The whole thing is develop players, develop them as people, develop teams.

My previous bosses - Louis van Gaal and Marcello Lippi, to name two - have all taught me something.

One of my strengths is connecting with the players.

Knowing who I am as a player and working on my deficiencies, communication is something I try to pride myself on.

A lot of people have said, 'Why not take a smaller school head job?' I honestly feel my growth was better being in a large program, being around Coach Saban, and learning how to manage a lot of the tough situations you deal with in the media.

As you develop relationships in your team you have to learn how your teammates react to being yelled at or how to put your arm around them and show them how to do things. You have to build those relationships up and understand who that person is and how they respond and choose your way to lead them to hopefully help everyone out.

The reason you get into coaching in the first place is to help and develop, try to make people better.

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.

Even though I am getting my coaching badges, I am more into mentoring.

In order to lead people, you have to get to know them.

Doing deals doesn't yield the deep rewards that come from building up people.

Every relationship you have, you're learning and growing and taking something from that.

This whole thing's about development. Not only are we trying to develop players, we're trying to develop ourselves.

Most people that derail as leaders in the corporate world, it's not because they couldn't do the math and calculate return on investment properly. The issues are communication and understanding. All of what typically would've been called the 'soft stuff.' You have to be authentic. You have to be dialed into the soft stuff.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

I try to find, celebrate and teach leaders how to build platforms that will inspire others.

One of the other things I think that I've been able to do in my life, is to listen well.