Romelu Lukaku Quotes

Once you're more aware of people's needs, you can create action plans for others to follow. That way, you're responsible for your own well-being, too.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

I enjoy being held accountable, I enjoy holding my teammates accountable and being someone that my teammates can depend on.

Playing quarterback, you rely on everybody. Everybody impacts you.

My job as the associate head coach was to make sure the head coach has everything he needs. That's my job. Whatever he needs me to do and whatever I see fit to do to help the team win.

More often than not as a quarterback, your performance is a reflection of the guys around you. I've been fortunate to be around some pretty good guys.

As a goalkeeper, I needed good players around me. I needed Nemanja Vidic, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Wayne Rooney. It's the same as a CEO.

If there's a problem, I prefer to have to swallow that myself than force a team-mate to do so. I think about them because in my position that is what your job consists of.

My main role is to help the team. And I love that role. And I love that my teammates feel comfortable coming to me.

You touch every other ball and, if you screw up, you only have one more person to back you up. You can't go hide in the corner.

That's how you get a performance - they put trust in you.

You lead with direction, and you try to lead by example. I try to be there when things are not good and obviously share the spoils of success.

A good leader should focus on making sure everyone is being given the tools to do their job, not just expecting - poof! - that they're going to produce great work.

I think trust is primarily built through relationships, and it's important because it's the foundational currency that a leader has with his team or his followers.

A coach's greatest asset is his sense of responsibility - the reliance placed on him by his players.

A leader must be a good listener. He must be willing to take counsel. He must show a genuine concern and love for those under his stewardship.

We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him statistics and showing him what we were doing as we went along and kind of saying to him, you know, this is really important.

There's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you're not a true ally to the person who's in charge of all that.

The one thing that I know is that you win with good people.

I have unbelievable trust in my offensive line that they will get the job done. Not only them, but the running backs and as a quarterback, I have to do my job in getting the ball in the right people's hands and doing what I do best.

The way you build trust with your team is around super-clear communication in that instant when they say, 'I will be sad if you don't do X.' You have to say, 'We're not going to do X, and here's why, and believe me, you'll be much sadder later if I let you go do it and you spend a bunch of time on it and nothing ever happens.'

I can let the team do the talking for me.

You need the right people to kind of help make these things real.

To be successful in coaching you have to treat your team like a family. The leader needs backing from everyone.

It's not a successful captain that makes a successful team.