Patrick Mouratoglou Quotes

With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.

It's always really challenging trying to go from player to player/coach. You have a kind of friendship basis of relationship with all of your teammates, and now you go to this power position where you have to make decisions that might hurt people's feelings.

I like being a leader in real life.

I'm not really a management-type person. It doesn't suit my personality to be bossing people around.

We had a lot of different personalities. Hoak was the straw boss. He just would not quit.

I can lead my team.

Teams usually take on the personality of the coach.

I'm a leader.

The formation is not the most important thing.

I'm not a micromanager. I don't believe in that.

A leader who is confused or confusing causes too much anxiety, and a leader who is too controlling is revealing more insecurity and a lack of leadership.

One of my skills is knowing, 'This is where I'm needed, and this is how I'm needed and where I'm going to be in control and where I'm going to cede control and why.'

We can't do both. If you want us to lead, don't criticize us. And if you want us to play a supporting role, then tell us who is going to lead.

The coach should be the absolute boss, but he still should maintain an open mind.

I'm very much a leader in a lot of the work that I do or that I've done in my career.

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates', then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

It was Grant's company and he made all the decisions. And that was just fine.

Leadership does not depend on being right.

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

Leadership is influence.

Well, the first quality of being a good leader is you have to be able to follow. See, a good leader can't just be the leader all the time, I have to be able to follow.

There is no better way to manage than by walking around. Autocracy doesn't work. Talk to people in their offices, find out what's on their minds.

If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.

I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area.

Eddie is a natural leader. Jeff and I have been very much in control of previous bands we've worked in. But the way Eddie grew into being the leader of this band was the most gradual, slow and respectful process that I've ever been involved in.