Scott Walker Quotes

There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.

In politics, as in business, leadership is crucial.

I think leadership is more than just being able to cross the t's and dot the i's. It's about character and integrity and work ethic.

It's through a leader's actions - what he or she does and says on a daily basis - that the essence of great leadership becomes apparent.

I think for me, or for anyone who plays the quarterback position, it's almost an unspoken word when you think about leadership. Some guys can be a leader and be a running back or a lineman, or wide receiver, strong safety, or linebacker. But when you speak of quarterbacks, it's automatically a default that you're supposed to be a leader.

A lot of people think that they are leaders just because they have been placed in charge of something - and you're not.

Leadership means setting a moral tone.

The captain tag is something that players vote on, head coaches they give their title to. It requires a player that you think exemplifies leadership.

You see what type of player I am, and you see a lot of that in leaders. Hopefully, you lead from the front and, first and foremost, play well.

The quarterback position is a role of leadership, and I feel just who I am as a person, I bring different types of leadership to the table.

Leadership is not a popularity contest; it's about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title.

Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.

Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.

Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people.

You've got to coach worrying about your entire team: whether that gets you a championship or whether that gets you fired. I think it allows you to coach free. You're coaching with freedom because you know you're doing what you think is right.

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

If you ever live in a country run by a committee, be on the committee.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

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

If you call yourself a leader, then you have to be decisive. If you're decisive, then you have the chance to be a leader. These are two sides to the same coin.

You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.