David Luiz Quotes

We've got to prove that we can lead, and I'm going to be all-in to help prove that.

As a player, I have this feeling - and I think every player thinks this - that I am responsible for how my team-mates feel. I just want to do my best and give 100 per cent, and if I do that, they will feel better and think, 'I will give 100%.'

My teammates and the coaching team know that they can count on me.

As captain I enjoy the responsibility. Even when I didn't have the armband I was doing a lot outwith the club so it has been an easy transition.

I promise I will get up every day, determined to make a difference... I am ready to serve.

It's my responsibility to support the team behind Telegram.

I want to try to execute my role to help the team in the best way possible.

I'd love to go in the foxhole with guys who will stick their neck out and say, 'I'm going to deliver for you.'

My main role is to help the team. And I love that role. And I love that my teammates feel comfortable coming to me.

I just want to go out there and just be that player that my team needs me to be, whatever they need me to do.

I like to always lead from the front and set an example for whoever is playing with me or around me. I like taking responsibilities. That is my natural thing.

I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. That's what I try to do.

You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

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

That's one of my jobs, just trying to do what I can to help this team out as much as possible.

A coach's greatest asset is his sense of responsibility - the reliance placed on him by his players.

Maybe someone will step up, but they don't have anyone right now.

Leaders thrive when they feel creatively empowered, when they trust the people around them, when their confidence is swelling. Leaders make mistakes when they lose that same confidence, when they're fretting about their power base, when they're reacting instead of acting.

Is it important to have a crew behind me? No, it's important to have me behind them. That's how I look at it. You can't just roll with a situation like you're depending on somebody to help you. You're supposed to help the situation, whatever the situation is that you're in.

Ask not what the role can do for you; ask what you can do for the role.

It's nice to put your hand up and do the big things the team requires of you.

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.

We will not spend four years blaming others, we will take responsibility.

I think it is important for people who are given leadership roles to assume that role immediately.

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.