Declan Rice Quotes

I think I've been brought up very well by both my parents. I am very cautious and I think I'm now fit for the world I'm in. They're very much behind my modelling and very supportive.

Being a role model is a little bit of pressure on me, but I know that people will support me either way which is a good feeling.

It's in my head that I am a leader, and captaining Monchengladbach was very good for me.

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

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

All leaders share something in common. They feel they are the only ones who can do the job.

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing. You have to be a salesman, and you have to get your players, particularly your leaders, to believe in what you're trying to accomplish on the basketball floor.

I've always been a leader. Every team I've played on, I've led my way.

I think every player should think that he's a difference maker.

I know what I want at least, and the older I get I think I'm better at getting it out of players and singers.

I have spent a lifetime watching kids make mistakes because they were not trained or well led or properly motivated to do well. I never faulted the kids; rather, I saw opportunity to train, to motivate, to improve leadership - not to punish the individual.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

My dad taught me to be a leader or a follower, and he said follower ain't fun. So I want to be the leader of Bubba Watson.

As a player, I always felt confident that if I was caIm, my teammates knew, 'He's going to do something to help us win.' As a coach, my hands are really tied. I got to believe in my players. If they see I'm calm, they'll believe I trust them, which I do.

My father was a very fun dad. He was always coaching our soccer sports teams; he made sure that we had activities to do. He was kind of goofy and fun. But at the same time, he had a lot of lessons to teach us so that we didn't grow up and just not be good people.

Coach Smart did a great job of just letting me come to terms with myself as a basketball player and a person.

I can remember having meetings with my coaches when things were going bad. I told them, 'Hey, we've got to be positive. This is the time we need to step up. You've got to make sure they know everything is going to be okay. Keep teaching. Once they see you are down, you lose them and that can't happen.'

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.

When the coach can get the trust and the confidence of a team to believe in him, and everyone accepts what they're doing for the team, the good and the great of the team, it usually works out.

I've got the best coaches in the world. I've got confidence in them, and they've got confidence in me.

Arsene Wenger gave me the belief to keep working and competing. He was not talking to me every day, 'I believe in you,' but it was every now and again. The right amount.

It takes a special individual to be a coach to pay attention to all that bad stuff and keep people accountable.

I'm really good at bringing out greatness - in anybody. I don't even have to be in the studio. What a gift to be able to help people bring out the best qualities in them.

When you're not playing, it is difficult to feel that you are the leader of the team.

Every time I get on the court, I want to push my teammates to be better as a leader and lead by example.