Cesar Azpilicueta Quotes

From playing cricket in a boys team I had to learn quite quickly how to handle them and I've always felt quite comfortable in that environment. Because I feel comfortable, I'd like to think they do too.

People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.

I'd never managed anyone before, so I don't have a lot of experience. But I'm lucky - I have a lot of team members who have a really honest relationship with me.

What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it's like a coach-player relationship.

Always, at a big team, there's very hard competition.

Whether you're a founder, a leader, or an individual contributor, building a strong team is critical to your success.

It can be lonely as a manager out there. You are on the field, yes, but you are not really on the field with them. Yet I have to share with my players my experiences and my knowledge.

I don't like to make comparisons between former managers because they all bring a unique style.

As you develop relationships in your team you have to learn how your teammates react to being yelled at or how to put your arm around them and show them how to do things. You have to build those relationships up and understand who that person is and how they respond and choose your way to lead them to hopefully help everyone out.

I've been on a bunch of teams in my career.

Football management is about managing people.

You're getting to know these guys as people, and as players. You have to develop a rapport. They give me a lot of respect.

As a manager, you manage a team and there are good periods where there are good feelings in the group.

We have to improve at club level - and at the international level, there is a lot of room for improvement.

Being a point guard in this league, you have to balance out people - the emotions and stuff like that.

It's about what the players are doing. My job is facilitate that. My job is to put them in positions to succeed. My job is to listen to their ideas, take them if they're good, quietly push them to the side if they're not. My job is to help them grow.

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

Believe me, you need good people if you want to make good players.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

You need a lot of leaders, but a hockey team needs a voice, not only in the community, but more importantly between the coaching staff and the players. There are always ups and downs in a season; the captain is the guy players look to in those situations.

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

I'm always learning from experiences because each one is different and there are different players involved in the project at the time with their own way of doing things.

The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful.

My job is to give my team a chance to win.

I've played sports pretty much my whole life, and that teaches you how to work with anyone, whether you like that person or you don't, and whether you get along with them or you don't. The circumstances don't matter. Team work is part of life.