Simon Sinek Quotes

Trust gives you the permission to give people direction, get everyone aligned, and give them the energy to go get the job done. Trust enables you to execute with excellence and produce extraordinary results. As you execute with excellence and deliver on your commitments, trust becomes easier to inspire, creating a flywheel of performance.

If a guy doesn't work hard and doesn't play well, he can't lead anything. All he is, is a talker.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

I'm at my best when people are depending on me. If it's just on me and I don't have nothing to do, I'm going to be lazy. On the football field, it's every single day, every play, knowing that people are depending on me to make my play. That helps me elevate my game to another level.

Every day, you want to come in and contribute when your name is in the lineup.

You're not going to look at Paul and see him slacking, not carrying his weight. All the other stuff, 'Paul doesn't lead' and all that? That's fine. Go grab guys that lead, then. Let me help them lead.

When you give your team five innings, you don't really feel good about five innings.

My motto in life is 'if you give 100 per cent then no one can ask any more'.

Don't make excuses, make good.

I am not going to be the guy who's not pulling his weight.

When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.

I have a strong sense of responsibility. I like to be directed, it's true. If I didn't like that, I'd do something else.

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.

When they come here, what we are looking for them to do is step up to the plate, take responsibility and get the big innings, the centuries - or take a lead with the ball.

Across professions, consistency is a direct product of work ethic.

I like my players to be married and in debt. That's the way you motivate them.

I'm one of those people where, the more responsibility I have, the better I become. The more I rise up to it. The less responsibility I have, the more I can easily devolve.

I always show up to work and give it everything, and some things turn out better than others - and some things you can expect that it will come out better than others.

There was no question that in our house doing well, doing it the right way, school, sports - there was an expectation. One of the things I've taken away from that is that I'm unafraid to expect a fair amount from people. It makes them so much better - you're doing them a disservice if you don't.

My job is to build that belief in every coach and every owner, that they can put the franchise in my hands and I can take it uphill from there. Obviously, everyone wants to be No. 1, but I'm not going to campaign. I'm just going to go out and show what I've got.

True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.

I like to work hard and see the results of my hard work.

My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why don't you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a rage? It is not that you cannot do it but that you don't want to do it.

I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.

I don't have to show that I am working very hard.