Chris Hughton Quotes

You always want to improve, learn from the veterans on the team.

My best investment, as cliched as this sounds, is the money I've spent developing myself, via books, workshops and coaching. Leadership begins within, and to have a better career, start by building a better you.

Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.

I don't plan in terms of career ambitions. The only career ambition I have is to work with people who are going to bring you up and elevate your performance. They'll let you know things that you didn't know already and bring you places that you might not have gotten to otherwise.

No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how you can get better. So for me, the most fundamental thing about leadership is to have the humility to continue to get feedback and to try to get better - because your job is to try to help everybody else get better.

You don't get any better unless you're around guys who know more than you.

If someone works with me, I try to take them to the next level.

I am here just to learn, to improve, to help my team improve.

You see guys that have been in the league for a long time and have taken that opportunity to not only make their game better but to make the people around them better. And to help them know things that maybe you wish you had known.

I want to do this for as long as I possibly can and coach as many different teams and opportunities and different kind of personalities. I want to gobble that all up. And I want to be able to give and add value to these teams.

One quality of leaders and high achievers in every area seems to be a commitment to ongoing personal and professional development.

The only job security you have today os your commitment to continuous personal improvement.

Mentorship is the key to extraordinary success.

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

When you're younger, it's about, 'How can I get better? How can I become the player that I want to be?' As you get older, it's, 'How can this football team improve?' While all along getting better along the way.

The best way to find a balance between doing your best and showing that you're ready for more is by developing other people. As tempting as it is to hoard knowledge, don't. Instead, make certain that there are others who know how to do important aspects of your job.

If you have a coach helping you, developing your skills alongside you, that's when you're on your way to becoming not just a participant but achieving.

Surround yourself with people you can always learn something from. Always work with people that are better at their craft than you are.

I think the only way you learn is to surround yourself with people that are better than you.

Training has been such a huge part of my life and career I hope to keep going with it.

For me, it's about surrounding myself with the best, most talented team out there, and not ever being afraid of being the worst guy in the room. It's ego-crushing, yeah. Every day is ego-crushing. But it keeps you sharper than you can imagine.

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.

If I look myself as a manager, I have lot more to learn.

I've always felt that work - learning from people who know more than I know - is what keeps you going.

I always try to work with people who are better than me, so I can learn more.