Rudy Gobert Quotes

I enjoy making plays for my teammates.

In football, it's the ultimate team sport. You have to have good people around you as a quarterback for things to happen.

I've seen those mistakes where I could have just given an easy layup or quick dump pass just to get my teammates going, so I watched a lot of stuff on that. Now I see it, now I can make those plays and make sure I feed my teammates.

When I started to do it with precision, I realized how much setting good screens made us better as a team offensively. It made things easy for me and my teammates.

A good director has to be a captain - he has to work with a lot of people every day.

I'm learning more and more to share creativity with the crew and actors. A film crew is more powerful if you listen to them, but it does make my job more tough because I have to listen.

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

My job is just to make the right play, read the defense, shoot if it's there, and make plays for my team.

You need the right people to kind of help make these things real.

It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer.

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

You don't know how many times I was in the huddle, asking my teammates to help me call a play.

Sometimes you just have to be willing to delegate and not feel like you're the only one with the answer.

Leadership is having a compelling vision, a comprehensive plan, relentless implementation, and talented people working together.

Part of being a successful leader is listening and looking for opportunities to bring people together.

I want the ball in my hands, throwing the ball, making decisions.

I was constantly reading books about how to direct, and asking directors, 'How do you do it?' And when I finally actually started doing the work, it seemed like you have to be decisive and have an opinion. But also you have to be a good collaborator and hire the right people to shore up whatever your skill set is.

I think I can score. But personally, I like to pass first, because people love people who pass. And I'm a point guard, so my job is to kind of get people open.

In football, as in life, as in business, everything can be talked about and discussed.

Good direction is often based on the ability to communicate.

I'm really looking to facilitate, find my teammates.

If there is anything I wanted to learn in Europe, it was how I could be more of a team player.

Showing teams I can do more than just shoot the ball, that's really going to help me out.

Football is teamwork, unity, defence, assists, sacrifice.

What makes a leader great is not the fact that she (or he) has all the answers, but the ability to inspire and empower us to find the answers.