Gareth Barry Quotes

If players know their role it is easier to keep to them.

It's important everyone knows their roles individually and collectively as a group.

I pride myself on being able to get the guys lined up on the team, and being a great teammate and also doing my job.

Coaches have plans and structures, and if you're not in those plans you shouldn't take it personally.

As head coach, I try to give clear role clarity, instil structure and create an environment in which players can excel.

Some people get on better with some than others but what is absolutely crucial is that everyone knows their roles and responsibilities and trust that your team-mate is going to do their best for the team.

As a goalkeeper, you feel like if you're treated like adults and have your position explained to you, you respect that. You might not agree with it, but you get on with it.

We must know our own roles. We should also know the roles that others play, and the rules such roles follow. In this manner, social harmony is maintained. It is when we overstep our roles, or act without knowing them, that social anarchy ensues.

In football, it's the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.

I'm responsible for what I say, but I'm not responsible about how people interpret my situation.

As long as people are clear on what they need to do and what's going on, you're very likely to succeed. When nobody is clear, then you're guaranteed to fail.

I feel that a great coach is one that has a vision, sets a plan in place, has the right people in place to execute that plan and then accepts the responsibility if that plan is not carried out.

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.

They know what my standards are. They know what I need and how to get it to me, and they know how to communicate with me if for some reason they can't get it.

We have to back each other up no matter what. Defense, you have to do your job, and offense has to do theirs.

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.

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.

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

If words of command are not clear and distinct, if orders are not thoroughly understood, the general is to blame.

I always think how I should play to make the most out of my teammates' abilities and their established styles.

Not having to constantly remind everyone what's required is an important part of being successful.

As a QB, it's a team game, and you're all out there in it.

I know what I do for my team and what my teammates expect of me on both ends of the floor.

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.

It takes all 11 on the field doing their job correctly to make it all happen.