Jaap Stam Quotes

LeBron is like a coach. He is a coach on the floor. He has a great basketball IQ.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

It's hard to be the point guard, especially playing with a young team.

As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business.

The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each person's trigger.

You can lead a team in a lot of different ways. It can be talking to somebody who is down or, during the course of a game, looking to penetrate and then dropping the ball off to someone else for an easy bucket.

I have three tools at my disposal - my whistle, my body language and my talk. It is a question of how I marry them up to try to get the players around to my way of thinking.

One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.

Look, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I'm no different.

You have to be able to do everything as a quarterback, and that's not necessarily taking care of your job but making sure you're preparing everyone else to go out and play well. And make sure you have them in the right mindset when they step on the field.

When I first became captain of the Indian cricket team in 2000, many well-wishers and journalist friends gifted me the classic Mike Brearley book, 'The Art of Captaincy.' I mean no disrespect to the book or Mr, Brearley, who I admire a great deal, but books or team meetings don't make you good captains.

If I can understand them better as a person then I can understand how to make them a better player too.

I think Coach Kerr and his staff have done a great job with what they bring to the table.

There are a lot of good coaches in this league, and there are a lot of good coaches out there.

My dad has a certain spirit, a twinkle in his eye, someone who can set a certain standard for players but also convey it with humor. What I learned from him is that coaching is, more than anything, about connecting with people.

As with any skill, you have to work at leadership. Watch how the best do it, review what you've done, and look at what you might do.

MS has always been a bowler's captain.

Part of being a successful leader is listening and looking for opportunities to bring people together.

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.

Every big moment has stresses and lessons that you take into your managerial career. You can pass it down to the lads who work under you. And everybody knows you handled it.

You shouldn't get into coaching unless you care about the people you're leading.

The way that I prepare, the way that I play, the way that I like to speak to the lads or manage situations is the way that I do things.

I have a lot of power. Here, I can decide: training at six in the morning! Training 11 in the night! But my style is not to impose. I would like to convince the players of what they are doing. This takes more time.

Good captains know the strengths and weaknesses of their teams and make decisions accordingly.

Zidane is a leader in the dressing room. His personality is going to make him very successful.