Jae Crowder Quotes

An inspiring word for me is to think of myself as limitless.

My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.

When you're younger, it's about, 'How can I get better? How can I become the player that I want to be?' As you get older, it's, 'How can this football team improve?' While all along getting better along the way.

I've been around enough to know what it takes to get a team to reach its potential, and I want players who want to reach their potential.

The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.

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.

The thing is, don't get me wrong, I still love scoring and I hate to lose but now I see myself more as making players play better. Sometime you do what you have to do and you have to perform, that is still there, but in my mind I am thinking about making the guys around me play better and that is never an easy thing to do.

Phil Jackson is a mastermind, and he knows how to keep his team from being complacent.

It's part of my role to push the guys around me to be the best they can be. I think that's part of being a leader.

When you have a coach that is a competitor, that wants to win more than anything else, it really carries over to the team.

I'm sorry, but until my last day as a coach, I will try to play from my goalkeeper.

I do a lot of things to help my team winning - set screens, roll into the rim, finishing. I think I can be even more than that.

In order to be successful you need to have a good team with a good core, so my whole thing is that I was always encouraging my teammates, and I try to lead them by example to play together, to play as a team.

I feel like potential is limitless. It's as far as you want to take it.

People think that coaching is about winning football matches - which, of course, it is - but throughout my career it has also been about helping people become better, more able to deal with life and be more successful in their lives, on and off the football pitch.

I am changing the culture in this Pakistan environment and I am not interested in players doing just the bare minimum. I want players winning us games of cricket and pushing themselves to be the best they can be.

I have never restricted myself to my strengths and abilities, as they are unlimited, and I am still discovering them.

There are no limitations. There are no barriers. Nothing can stop you, and nothing can define you but you.

The biggest challenge was becoming a leader and taking our team to the highest level. Feeling the personal responsibility to take the team to the next level. Overcoming fear of inadequacy and never getting down on yourself or doubting who you are.

I know myself that when there is a manager who knows how to get the best out of you then it's different - and that's why I chose Villa. I wanted to work with Steve Bruce again.

The great breakthrough in your life comes when you realize that you can learn anything you need to learn to accomplish any goal that you set for yourself. This means there are no limits on what you can be, have or do.

A group of amazingly high achievers can be brought together and play together, and all believe that they are competing for something bigger than themselves. Those players are so used to being patted on the back and told how good they are. Frankly, those are usually the hardest people to remind that they are aspiring to achieve something bigger than themselves.

Be all you can be in whatever you choose to do. The sky is the limit, so go for it. And do not create any self-imposed limitations.

When you're not playing up to your capability, you gotta try everything, to motivate, to get them going. All of them have to be on the same end of the rope to pull together. It's playing for the name on the front of the shirt, not the back. Individualism gets you trophies and plaques. Play for the front, that wins championships. I try to remind them of that.

Affirm: I place no limits and no restrictions on all that I intend to accomplish and become from here on in.