Andrew Whitworth Quotes

When building a strong team, you need a strong leader.

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

A very good leader is someone who has a great team, it's all about the team. You only have 12 hours or 14 hours a day, if the people that are with you are doing a great job, you can have a great business. If not, it's not going to work.

Every team needs leaders, but not just one or two.

Leadership is an active role; 'lead' is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry.

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.

As a leader, you want your team to play as you are.

A good leader has to at some point trust those around him; otherwise, nothing constructive is going to get done.

Good leaders make people's strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

A great team relies on its leaders and they have to make a difference at key moments.

Man-management is my biggest asset, to help the players enjoy themselves and be better than they already are.

I can lead my team.

Good teams understand how to compete, how to practice the right way.

Getting the best out of your best players gets the best out of the team.

I try to implement my own ways of making teams successful.

I have been captain in the past and I know what it takes to gel a team and get it going.

Successful leaders surround themselves with intelligent people.

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 always say, as a leader, you've got to know when to get out of the way.

The leadership aspect of U.S.A. basketball has really helped me out a lot.

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

There is no real magic to being a good leader. But at the end of every week, you have to spend your time around the things that are really important: setting priorities, measuring outcomes, and rewarding them.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

There's no way a director can communicate with every single person on the set and yet they need to motivate and instill an ambition to want to do their best work.