Charles Spurgeon Quotes

Nobody ever built a statue to a committee.

I don't view myself as a team manager, but a team captain. I'm part of the team, but everybody else as well.

I always say that I'm not the director, I'm part of the team.

The work of a team should always embrace a great player but the great player must always work.

You might be the leader of the team, but without the rest of the team, you're not doing anything. I think that's the way I look at my job as the lead of a TV show.

You can’t do leadership alone.

… leadership is not a one man show.

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

You're always going to get different personalities within a team.

It's not one person that changes the team.

My whole thing is being a coach, a GM, and a president: you all got to be attached at the hip. There's got to be no separation between you. The players got to know it's one voice: we're all in this together; we're going to do this right.

Everyone fights for everyone else. If someone has a bad day, then the others are there for him. And if a player makes a mistake, then the others can compensate for that. Those sorts of things are crucial at this level, and it's really important that we perform as a unit.

We need everybody to contribute as one and do what we've got to do to win. Football is not an individual game. In basketball, LeBron James can take over a game by himself.

When I'm playing football, it's what I know; it's what I'm good at. The spotlight is not just on you: you're with 10 of your team-mates. I could have done other sports, like tennis and athletics, but I like being part of a team where it's not just about you; it's about everybody.

Anytime we lose a game, you can't point the fingers at the guy that everybody wants to point the finger at because it's not just him. It's 10 other guys on the football field that need to help him out, including myself.

I think the team is always better than the individual player.

No one person is going to come in and change the world, or a national team.

I think you have to obviously be familiar with how the team wants to play and play to that style. But I think you also have to find a way to be yourself.

I always say, whether it's Liverpool or England, it's not just me who is a leader.

Not everything, always, is about your performance. It's about the team performance. When the team is not playing well, then normally, you will not play well. It's all about the team.

My fine friends who are perfectionists, each in their own world where they are petty dictators, could write a perfect bill. Those of us who have grown up and matured...understand that we have to work together on the big issues.

At the end of the day government is about teamwork and partnership and we will be proving that by working together.

The effective leader recognizes that she is more dependent on her people than they are on her. Walk softly.

For a team to accomplish their goal, everybody’s got to give up a little bit of their individuality.

The patrol system leads each boy to see that he has some individual responsibility for the good of his patrol.