Cam Newton Quotes

The quarterback position is a role of leadership, and I feel just who I am as a person, I bring different types of leadership to the table.

Leadership is one of sports' intangibles. Guys can score, guys can fight, guys can skate faster than anybody else. But not everybody can say, 'Follow me.'

Leadership means setting a moral tone.

I try to be a leader on the pitch rather than off it.

As captain, you take a little bit more on board than probably just being a player.

I realize that as the quarterback, you have to assume some sort of leadership role because you have to talk in the huddle on every play, and you're essentially giving out orders to the team. But in my mind, I have to prove myself on the field before I can start asserting a leadership role.

Every team that I've played on, I've either been the captain or co-captain.

I've always been a leader. Every team I've played on, I've led my way.

If I'm a leader, I have a mission.

I think leadership is more than just being able to cross the t's and dot the i's. It's about character and integrity and work ethic.

Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action.

I think a captain is someone who captains on the cricket field but, most of the leadership that happens is off the cricket field. It's very easy to captain people on the cricket field, but if you can start leading them off the cricket field, and show them that trust, what you have in them.

But I just think as a captain, everybody's different.

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives.

There is only one way to respond to the issue of leadership and that is to lead.

I've put a lot of thought into being a leader.

I always thought that I played better when I was the captain. If you look at my record during the six years I was captain - except for a couple of series - I did very well.

I take the role of leadership as the most important job I have. Yes, it's the passes and all the different things you have to do, but it's leading and it's in the huddle and it's in the weight room and the meeting rooms. It's that role I think comes first.

Quarterbacks are the leaders of the team, and I want to try to get guys going. That's a job of a leader. That's a job of a quarterback.

As a captain, I just want to lead the team properly.

I've always tried to be a leader.

That's what I love the most about being a quarterback. Everybody looks to you to make a play. They look to you to say something that's going to spark the team. I take full pride in that every single day.

The main thing about being captain is keeping your own performance good, and then everything else should fall into place off the back of that.

My role is just be a leader on the court, be a team player, and that's what I am.