Eoin Morgan Quotes

We've seen guys in the sport, like Steve Smith and Virat Kohli, who have actually benefited from the captaincy.

When I first became captain the job was new and refreshing and didn't affect my batting. I was still in the same mental pattern I had had for 10 years; batting came first and captaincy fitted in with that.

As the captain of the team, my job involves more than just playing. I have to talk to the players and motivate them.

During my time as England captain I have always been both helpful and direct in my communications with the ECB.

As a captain, I just want to lead the team properly.

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.

I think leadership is more than just being able to cross the t's and dot the i's. It's about character and integrity and work ethic.

Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.

To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak - you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.

I think a captain is someone who captains on the cricket field but, most of the leadership that happens is off the cricket field. It's very easy to captain people on the cricket field, but if you can start leading them off the cricket field, and show them that trust, what you have in them.

I was a coach, and I put a lot of education and experience into coaching.

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.

I always thought that I played better when I was the captain. If you look at my record during the six years I was captain - except for a couple of series - I did very well.

MS has always been a bowler's captain.

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.

All the way through the youth ranks at Sao Paulo, I've always been the captain.

I played a lot of games at a young age and I feel like I'm an older player in the side now. I communicate a lot more on the pitch and in the training room now.

At LSU, I was a true leader. I know I made some mistakes, but I think I was a leader for my teammates.

I think I can run a team pretty well.

I know how to lead.

It's hard to be a leader right away, but playing quarterback, you have to.

Just because you're made England captain, it doesn't mean that you suddenly know everything about captaincy.

Leadership is a lot of hard work. I hoped, when I was younger, that I would just be a natural leader or that it was something that was innate, but it is really a learned skill.

One of the important things as a captain or coach is knowing what's going on around you, and knowing the right thing to say at the right time.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.