Adam Thielen Quotes

If you're a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

I am and always will be a leader.

I’ll take care of South America. Just leave it to me.

Anytime the coach gives you the ball and some encouragement, you get a sense of freedom.

I need to be the leader day in and day out - and I will be.

I'm not a player to defend or run around. I want the ball.

Anything I do, I spend a lot of time. I do it with passion and intensity. I want to be in charge.

When placed in command, take charge.

The world is in your hands, now use it.

For good or ill, I'm a person of leadership. I do my best. I don't dodge responsibility.

I think people want success, you know, and I'm the captain.

To be honest, the fact that people trust you gives you a lot of power over people. Having another person's trust is more powerful than all other management techniques put together.

Guys need to know when to take charge.

As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.

I was always the front man for what I was doing from when I was 6.

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

We will not duck the tough issues, we will lead.

In order to be a lieutenant, you've got to have authority in your voice. No matter how young your face looks, you've got to let your guys know that you're in charge.

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

I think my best work is when I'm kind of in charge.

One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when you've got somebody who's raring to go and you can smell it and feel it, give 'em that shot.

Obviously, you want to demand the puck; you want to have it as much as you can because you feel like good things can happen when it's on your stick.

[President] McKinley gave [Lt. Andrew Sommers] Rowan a letter to be delivered to [General Calixto] Garcia: Rowan took the letter and did not ask, "Where is he at?" By the eternal, there is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze and the statue placed in every college in the land. It is not book learning that young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do the thing—"carry a message to Garcia.

We have a crisis in confidence because we have an absence of leadership.

If one has no compass, when one doesn't know where one stands and where one wants to go, one can deduce that one has no leadership or interest in shaping events.