N'Golo Kante Quotes

Before I came to Barcelona, I only thought about one facet of the game: destroying. My qualities were completely defensive, and I wouldn't take responsibility for organising my team's game, our attacks.

I think as a central defender you grow as a player.

For me, the best defender I played against was Carles Puyol. He was my teammate, too, but my rival many times. Also, Roberto Ayala, the Argentinian centerback.

I learned a lot of things that made me be a better player and have more of a variety on the pitch.

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.

There is no real magic to being a good leader. But at the end of every week, you have to spend your time around the things that are really important: setting priorities, measuring outcomes, and rewarding them.

The most challenging part of being CEO is communicating to 200,000 people what you want done.

Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

I work strategically with my management team to make all decisions.

A key to achieving success is to assemble a strong and stable management team.

Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.

A manager is a guide. He takes a group of people and says, 'With you I can make us a success; I can show you the way.'

Get a good team and do what you think is right.

Like most entrepreneurs, getting motivated to work has never been a problem for me; focus comes through delegating tasks to the best people you can find.

I loved multi-tasking. I loved being involved in a lot of things. To me, the more complex the better, and so being a leader of a business to me was like, 'Wow, that's what I want to be.'

Leadership is inspiring people. Management is keeping the trains running on time.

When you are the manager, you want to win.

Personally, I always try to focus on the little things in my game. As a defender and attacking outside back, I continuously work on completing passes, not being too predictable going forward into the attack, good services into the box, good positioning and footwork.

Good managers ensure good outcomes, but great leaders can deliver a vision by getting people to work together.

As a leader, you have to have a vision that inspires people around you.

Having the ball in my hand all the time and making plays, it was bound to come to a point where I knew where to get the ball to, who and when to give the ball to somebody. Just making the right decisions when I have it.

To play as an anchor man you have to be extremely disciplined and a lot of the time you're attracted to the ball but can't go there because if you don't get there or it breaks down there is a hole.

We need to be aware of what we need to do at every moment... and we have to manage the game; that's the art of a great team.

Playing football helped me a lot. Just reading the quarterback's eyes and reading receivers, figuring out what they want to do.

Anyone who wants to be a centre-half would have to say that John Terry is a role model. Every centre-half in the game would agree with that. It is the way he leads the team and the way he reads the game.