Graham Potter Quotes

My best investment, as cliched as this sounds, is the money I've spent developing myself, via books, workshops and coaching. Leadership begins within, and to have a better career, start by building a better you.

I can't say I'm not nervous at all with media and doing speeches, but I'm getting used to it and better at it, hopefully.

I realized I love motivating and I love empowering and I love inspiring people. I did that as an athlete for 18 years, and I am able to do that as a motivational speaker now as well as doing work on television.

Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession.

I'm interested in coaching.

Motivational talks are something I have been asked to do and i fancy taking a crack at it.

Coaching is something I want to do.

That's what I need to work on - my charisma in front of people.

I worked under Jose Mourinho, a manager who taught me new things and stressed I should believe in myself.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.

Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings.

We could all use more coaching.

Opening up is something I have to learn how to do if I'm going to be in this business.

It was only after a visit to a learning centre, where they taught me public speaking, that my personality emerged.

I think, for me, I should have worked harder on my mic skills, and I should have been a lot easier to deal with, and I would have been pushed a lot better.

If I walk into a room, I'm quite content to sit in the corner and chat with people who walk by. But coaching forced me to come out of my shell.

I used to fear public speaking. My voice would shake, I used to forget to breathe. Now it's pretty easy for me.

I'm a fan of coaching.

You have to learn how to dress yourself and how to walk into a room and talk to people. Once you're in rehearsal, you have to know how to rehearse and how to communicate with your creatives, even if you don't communicate the same way.

Coach K always wanted me to talk more, even when I was in college. That's something I'm going to do as I get older.

Coaching is not easy.

In 2014, I knew my English was not so bad, but I had no confidence in talking directly to an English-speaking reporter. I had to do a short interview with, I think, Reuters from France. I was so nervous. I practiced memorizing three sentences for two hours. But, I think that these kinds of interviews make me develop a lot, and that helps me.

Learning how to be persuasive has been really crucial to my life both professionally and personally.

When I first started VMware, I was very shy and self-conscious about speaking. I grew out of this by giving talks each week in front of the whole company; gradually, as we scaled, I had talked to more and more people, and this is how I conquered my fear of talking to people.

If I could get better on the field, I could get better in my interviews. I took that approach: if there's something I'm deficient in, whether it be in relationships, whether it be talking to people, just that self-reflection to seek people out who can help me.