AB de Villiers Quotes

Well, my transition into being a captain was easy.

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.

It's been a career filled with very low valleys and some wonderful, high peaks.

I've had some wonderful successes and some extreme disappointments in my career and my life.

Being a leader requires being confident enough in your own decisions and those of your team to own them when they fail. The very best leaders take the blame but share the credit.

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

I got put into leadership roles very early in life from fifth grade, sixth grade. I always ended up being the quarterback or the leader of the sports teams, and it's kind of benefiting me now.

I always thought that I played better when I was the captain. If you look at my record during the six years I was captain - except for a couple of series - I did very well.

Being a manager is the closest buzz I'll ever get to playing. For every low, you get a high, and that becomes an addiction and a feeling you are always chasing.

That was something I probably had to go through, a learning curve in terms of trying to develop into the captain I want to be.

I've been to the top. I've also been at the bottom.

I know I put forth an effort to try to build a championship team and to be a champion. And it hasn't worked out.

I truly love captaining. I've grown into enjoying it.

My goal was to be the starting quarterback at Texas Tech and I didn't reach that goal.

Champions take responsibility.

I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product.

When they come here, what we are looking for them to do is step up to the plate, take responsibility and get the big innings, the centuries - or take a lead with the ball.

I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life.

When you win, everything is everything. But when you lose, it's all about Allen Iverson and Larry Brown. When we win, I know that I get the praise and Larry Brown gets the praise, but when we lose, it's on me and Larry Brown. That's something that I have to learn to accept and deal with.

I feel like I've really earnt my stripes - I feel ready to play a lead. I would just love to prove I'm good enough to carry a project.

You get to a point in your career, I think, it's not even about money. You're secure. You want to win Super Bowls.

You know, I've had my ups and downs.

In 40-odd years in show business, some years I could do no wrong, and some years I could do nothing right. Show business. I owe it everything - it owes me nothing.

I haven't won a World Cup. There's things that haven't been finished, and I'm not afraid to fall flat on my face trying.

I am aware that as an actor, I can blame others for the failure of a film, the director, the script, choice of co-stars, timing of the release and so on. But now, as the director, I will have to shoulder all the blame.