Walter Alston Quotes

The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.

My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work.

On the playing side, a lot of guys I played under were pretty good managers.

If I have one skill as a manager, I can make things extremely clear.

The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.

Reading a book about management isn't going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make you a good guitarist, but it can get you thinking about the most important concepts.

Bad ballplayers make good managers.

Good direction is often based on the ability to communicate.

I'm very much a leader in a lot of the work that I do or that I've done in my career.

A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can.

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

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

You can lead a team in a lot of different ways. It can be talking to somebody who is down or, during the course of a game, looking to penetrate and then dropping the ball off to someone else for an easy bucket.

Well, the first quality of being a good leader is you have to be able to follow. See, a good leader can't just be the leader all the time, I have to be able to follow.

I have three tools at my disposal - my whistle, my body language and my talk. It is a question of how I marry them up to try to get the players around to my way of thinking.

The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.

Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

Leadership is an ever-evolving position.

I think management is about just that - managing people via man-to-man skills.

I'm not comparing myself with anyone, but I am very confident about my captaincy, as I have already led India and in the IPL also. I have confidence I can bring out each player's ability fully and also give them a lot of confidence... I would like to stick to what I know best and what I have confidence in.

I'm not really a management-type person. It doesn't suit my personality to be bossing people around.

And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.

Leadership—not salesmanship

Leadership requires a blend of strategy, persuasion, inspiration and motivation. It is based on respect more than fear.

'Get up and hit a home run,' has never been a part of the usable technique of any manager.