Louis van Gaal Quotes

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.

Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.

What I have found is that, in a family business structure, sometimes what is needed is a sense of discipline rather than creativity. You have to take everyone's ideas and make it work. When you are dealing with money, there is a limitation on how creative you can be.

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.

During my time as England captain I have always been both helpful and direct in my communications with the ECB.

Guidelines for bureaucrats: (1) When in charge, ponder. (2) When in trouble, delegate. (3) When in doubt, mumble.

As a President, you need to have someone around you who can tell you that you are wrong.

It's football, you work with humans and humans make mistakes. We will do everything in our power to prepare the players so they know to make the right decision at the right times.

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.

At LSU, I was a true leader. I know I made some mistakes, but I think I was a leader for my teammates.

Every goal for me is to be a leader on the court every time I step on the court.

Even without tactical discipline, what is important for a team is having players with maturity and a sense of responsibility.

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

I have to put my team in a good situation.

It's hard to be a leader right away, but playing quarterback, you have to.

Being a point guard in this league, you have to balance out people - the emotions and stuff like that.

Just because you're made England captain, it doesn't mean that you suddenly know everything about captaincy.

I think it's a requirement that the general manager and the coach are communicating with each other on a regular basis, and it's unacceptable if they're not.

What I do know as a manager, as a person, is that you have to try and be honest with everyone around you. If I leave a player out, they deserve an explanation. It's about communication, about being clear in what you want.

Learning on the job as England captain is hard.

I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful.

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.

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.'

I think sometimes when it comes to sports, and especially relationships between players and coaches, that people lose track, lose a sense of reality.