Mohammad Azharuddin Quotes

We've seen guys in the sport, like Steve Smith and Virat Kohli, who have actually benefited from the captaincy.

I know that it is a huge responsibility to be the captain, the No. 10, but I like it. I like the responsibility, the pressure, and I like playing football.

I'm ready to accept the pressures of captaincy.

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.

I've always been a leader. Every team I've played on, I've led my way.

I always liked the idea of leadership and being a captain.

I definitely see myself as a leader. One of the ways I've been lucky enough to lead and likely to continue to lead is just my actions and the way that I approach the game and working hard and being a player that steps up in big-time situations when plays need to be made.

But I just think as a captain, everybody's different.

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.

I made it pretty clear that if I'm captain, the best team has to play.

Great coaches can't win always in life.

Without wanting to sound pompous or clever it is down to me to make decisions on behalf of the side to give it the best chance of being successful.

We need to trust our coaches. Unless we trust them we can't get the result.

That's what I love the most about being a quarterback. Everybody looks to you to make a play. They look to you to say something that's going to spark the team. I take full pride in that every single day.

I've enjoyed the captaincy when I've done it at Middlesex and with England.

When I first became captain the job was new and refreshing and didn't affect my batting. I was still in the same mental pattern I had had for 10 years; batting came first and captaincy fitted in with that.

I have to put my team in a good situation.

Being the leader of a division is a pressure, but it's one that I feel I am ready for.

I'm really enjoying my time at Tottenham - it's a great feeling to be the captain too. I think I can be proud of that.

When you're not playing, it is difficult to feel that you are the leader of the team.

People say I'm a natural leader, but I just go out there and do my job and do whatever it takes to win; that's what comes with being a leader, those are the sort of things I've done as I've tried to grow into a leader and I'm just going to continue to do them.

You visualize making a game-changing play, that's what you're here for.

I want to be the best leader.

A captain has to be able to look a player in the eye before he starts his run-up or goes out to bat.

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.