Taysom Hill Quotes

Leadership must be likeable, affable, cordial, and above all emotional. The fashion of authoritarian leadership is gone. Football is about life. You can't be angry all day.

I like to help create team spirit in the dressing room. I feel that I've got loads of love to give.

I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

There's two parts of leadership. You've got to be a good leader - you've got to be somebody that people want to emulate and care about the other people. But the other guys that you have have to accept their leadership. They have to respond to it. That's the chemistry that you never know how that is going to happen.

As a leader, you want your team to play as you are.

I think I'm a guy that can relate to everyone and is fairly close with everyone on the team and can try to help bring guys together. That's what I tried to focus on when I was in Erie and I felt everyone was a part of the team. I definitely try to lead that way; I'm not the big rah-rah guy.

I'm great at working with people and collaborating. And if my biggest gift of all is that I'm really good at pulling things from people and helping them become better at what they're doing, I'm here, as I believe all of us are, to be of service.

I'm not sure how I became that way. But I've always been that way. Every team has to have at least one emotional player on the squad, or it wouldn't feel like a real squad. That lifts the squad up whenever it's down. That's what I try to do.

I am all about teams. I think I have probably got a reasonably relaxed style as a senior leader, I am pretty demanding, I am known as tough, not a soft touch, but I try to be friendly and I want my staff to feel they can come up and chat to me.

I'm going to be someone who smiles and brings joy to the locker room and to the field.

Leaders have to search for the heart on a team, because the person who has it can bring out the best in everybody else.

A director on a film really sets the tone of how people go about things, so everybody is happy to be at work and everybody does their best.

I don't need a captain's band to lead a team to victory.

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

You really just have to come in and build the spirit up of your team by working them everyday, showing them examples of what they've done and reinforce their work.

A good teammate is someone willing to get outside of personal thoughts and emotions, a friend who tries to understand, appreciate, and encourage other members of the team.

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.

All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

Eddie is a natural leader. Jeff and I have been very much in control of previous bands we've worked in. But the way Eddie grew into being the leader of this band was the most gradual, slow and respectful process that I've ever been involved in.

Really the team often will take on the personality of its coach.

I learned that leadership is about falling in love with the people and the people falling in love with you. It is about serving the people with selflessness, with sacrifice, and with the need to put the common good ahead of personal interests.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Good leaders need to be able to connect to all of those around them. This is especially true at Whole Foods, where we have a very team-oriented culture.

Leaders lead. They don't divide; they don't create a climate that is poisonous.