Don Yaeger Quotes

Leadership is about stepping up when it's the appropriate time and then making sure everyone knows that we're all on the same page.

I love to be directed. They can trust me and go.

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

I don't want the power. When a project is given to me, and I say yes, I'm gonna oblige everybody who has the power to try to make it work.

I love being around my teammates, and I love leading and having responsibility.

You grow year after year with responsibility, and for me, it's not important who has the armband but that everyone on the pitch gives the right signals.

I've always tried to be a leader.

I try and help my team-mates as best I can, and I lead from the front, on and off the field.

I have to put my team in a good situation.

Trust gives you the permission to give people direction, get everyone aligned, and give them the energy to go get the job done. Trust enables you to execute with excellence and produce extraordinary results. As you execute with excellence and deliver on your commitments, trust becomes easier to inspire, creating a flywheel of performance.

If the right people do the right things, we can walk, we can have a future. But if people don't put time into it to make it run in a right way, I don't think your team will work.

I have a strong sense of responsibility. I like to be directed, it's true. If I didn't like that, I'd do something else.

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.

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

Leaders lead but in the end it's the people who deliver.

The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.

I mean, you have to be able - you have to have made the commitment within yourself to do whatever it takes to get the job done and to try to inspire other people to do it, because obviously the first rule is you can't do it by yourself.

Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action.

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.

In any team sport, the best teams have consistency and chemistry.

The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.

Get a good team and do what you think is right.

Leadership doesn't amount to much unless you have followers.

When you empower people you sign up for a life of uncertainty and change.

I probably do better when I'm in charge. But it's good to be able to be a part of something and be a supporter and help make a project work.