Sol Campbell Quotes

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing.

The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful.

I need to build my team around my weaknesses.

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

The most important thing I've done at work has been to surround myself with amazing people who I trust and empower fully to do stuff better than I could.

Coaching is very complex: it's like a puzzle, and many things need to come together to make it work.

Leadership is an individual sport, one that has to be fine-tuned to each of the people that reports to you. Leaders also need to provide the direction, energy, encouragement and inspiration for each person who reports directly to the leader as well as for the overall organization.

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.

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

It's about what the players are doing. My job is facilitate that. My job is to put them in positions to succeed. My job is to listen to their ideas, take them if they're good, quietly push them to the side if they're not. My job is to help them grow.

People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.

I don't view myself as a team manager, but a team captain. I'm part of the team, but everybody else as well.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

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.

I spent a lot of time with my teams, especially in the East Coast teams, talking about dealing with the elements a lot of time, and a lot of instruction about field position and those kind of things. I like that variable.

Great leaders help their people see how they can directly impact the company's objectives and their own personal goals.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate.

Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.

A leader's job is not to do the work for others, it's to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done, and to succeed beyond what they thought possible.

All we do is sign great teams, and stay out of the way. The rest will take care of itself.

In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.

The thing I'm most focused on today is, how am I maximizing the effectiveness of the leadership team, and what am I doing to nurture it?

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.