Tyronn Lue Quotes

It's not always the player that's talking in the dressing room that becomes a good manager. It's a feeling that you need to develop, it's a feeling that needs to grow on you.

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.

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

MS has always been a bowler's captain.

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.

Quarterbacks are the leaders of the team, and I want to try to get guys going. That's a job of a leader. That's a job of a quarterback.

The hardest thing to do is be a point guard, learn how to be a point guard in the NBA as a young player because you gotta earn your respect first of all the old guys, all the old heads. You gotta command where to go, know the plays.

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

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.

Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.

True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision.

Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

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

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.

On the playing side, a lot of guys I played under were pretty good managers.

Leadership matters most, and optimism and unity comes from the leader.

Leadership requires a blend of strategy, persuasion, inspiration and motivation. It is based on respect more than fear.

As a player, I could have the ball in my hands; I could kind of dictate what happens. I'm still learning, a young coach with young players. Sometimes I'm going to see things. They're not going to see what I see. So it's being able to translate that and help them see what I'm seeing.

My job as a coach is to make good decisions. It's not to go out there and block or tackle.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

Playing baseball is fun. If I could play, I'd never retire. But managing is work. It's constant decisions of whose feelings you want to hurt all the time.

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.

It starts with me. I have to get the team in the right play and throw the ball where it's supposed to go.

I don't think I'm any different than most coaches, honestly. Maybe Steve Kerr. The guy never loses.

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