Matt Barnes Quotes

To know how I am very important to my team on defense, how my teammates need me on defense, it means a lot to me.

I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.

So I'd rather have a defense that's successful where everyone's comfortable in their positions.

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

A good leader has to at some point trust those around him; otherwise, nothing constructive is going to get done.

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

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

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

For us to be a really good team, everyone has to guard.

A good captain is great only if he has a great team.

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.

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.

I want to make sure when my team is having difficulties, they can count on me.

As coaches say, it's about finding your role. We're coming together as a team.

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.

If the players understand and accept that their leader is steering their direction through thoughtful, careful measures, then they will pull together to give the best effort every time.

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.

I think that I've learned to relax, and trust in and hire very talented people, and trust in their abilities a little more.

If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.

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

You talk all the time about being connected, being a unit, believing in each other. But if you have unnamed sources, people out there cutting you down, and then you find out it's the person calling the plays - that would be really hard to deal with, to look at him the same way.

Coach Skiles is tough. He's been my only coach in the NBA, so I'm used to it. His rules are a little different at times. At the end of the day, he just wants you to play hard defense, and you can't fault him for that.

If the national coach lets decisions be made from outside, he's lost the team.

If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.