Brian Lara Quotes

As a captain, I just want to lead the team properly.

When building a strong team, you need a strong leader.

Man-management is my biggest asset, to help the players enjoy themselves and be better than they already are.

I try to implement my own ways of making teams successful.

A quarterback has got to take control and I feel like I've done a good job with that. Not just what we're doing offensively, but in the locker room getting to know guys and hanging out with guys. All of that is going to make you a better team.

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

It is important for the manager to find the right solution for your team.

I can lead my team.

I take the role of leadership as the most important job I have. Yes, it's the passes and all the different things you have to do, but it's leading and it's in the huddle and it's in the weight room and the meeting rooms. It's that role I think comes first.

Football management is about managing people.

If the chief executive cannot have a party background, how can she ensure her team is wholeheartedly united?

A quarterback should be leaders of the team.

The Leader will be a person with the management skills to coordinate the activities of the Team, and to assure that the Team remains faithful to the objectives of the incoming President.

The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.

My job is to give my team a chance to win.

My No. 1 priority, and it always has been this, is keeping our team together and making sure we have the right guys in the right positions to make a run at this for a long time.

Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine.

Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about.

It's not a successful captain that makes a successful team.

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

Selecting a strong team without giving the new captain appropriate time isn't possible.

A coach coaches. That's what he does. That's what he's good at. He's not managing people. He manages his players, but that's different.

In a team, you need players who are technically good and can perform under pressure.

When you build a team, and you have 24 or 25 players, all can be decisive; can be important.

I've been the captain of my wrestling team, my college team, so to me, I've been in that leadership role for a very long time.