Alan Lewis Quotes

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.

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

The way that I prepare, the way that I play, the way that I like to speak to the lads or manage situations is the way that I do things.

I have a lot of power. Here, I can decide: training at six in the morning! Training 11 in the night! But my style is not to impose. I would like to convince the players of what they are doing. This takes more time.

Good captains know the strengths and weaknesses of their teams and make decisions accordingly.

LeBron is like a coach. He is a coach on the floor. He has a great basketball IQ.

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

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

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.

My job as a coach is to make good decisions. It's not to go out there and block or tackle.

Bad ballplayers make good managers.

Playing baseball is fun. If I could play, I'd never retire. But managing is work. It's constant decisions of whose feelings you want to hurt all the time.

You have to be able to do everything as a quarterback, and that's not necessarily taking care of your job but making sure you're preparing everyone else to go out and play well. And make sure you have them in the right mindset when they step on the field.

It starts with me. I have to get the team in the right play and throw the ball where it's supposed to go.

MS has always been a bowler's captain.

It's an interesting juxtaposition, being student body president and leading others and learning how to effectively help people on the team in a way that's not as direct.

It's not always the player that's talking in the dressing room that becomes a good manager. It's a feeling that you need to develop, it's a feeling that needs to grow on you.

I look at the group I've got and then I decide what strengths and weaknesses they have and then I formulate an appropriate way the players can work in order to be collectively successful.

Quarterbacks are the leaders of the team, and I want to try to get guys going. That's a job of a leader. That's a job of a quarterback.

I have been doing this for a long, and it is the players who learn who you need to work with. You have to coach them to think and understand the game. If they cannot, then you have to tell them, 'You have to do this anyway,' but the best thing to do is say, 'Listen, if he is doing this, then maybe you have to do that.'

To lead a group of players is to lead a group of people with different ways of thinking. You have to be prepared for that and know more than just about football. You have to speak a lot to the players, have to make them feel what you expect of them. Have to convince them. Therefore, it's very important for a coach to have a life outside football.

If you give time and space to players, they will make good decisions and score goals.

I have to put my team in a good situation.

I believe I am a player that can organise the game well for my team.