RJ Barrett Quotes

Well, I think I've had the opportunity to be around some great coaches and players. And I have been able to learn a little bit, something different from every single one that I've been around.

I think I constantly refer back to some of the things that I learned in New England and throughout my career. It was a great stepping stone, and it also gave me time to mature as a player and as a quarterback.

You learn a lot from quality players.

You know, quarterbacks, I think greatness in quarterbacks is taking what you've got, whether it's a great team, a good team, or a struggling team and make them better.

You work with great directors and terrible directors, and so you learn; you take what you think will work for you.

It was a great learning experience to work with James Stewart.

I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.

I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.

Empowering, cultivating, and ultimately serving those who follow you will unlock massive potential within your organization, allowing you to solve for problems in real time.

Dad was an outstanding leader. He'd bring in top thinkers from a wide array of fields - how to fix the Detroit schools, for example. I watched him in these meetings. He listened and probed.

I've worked with some very good directors and some very bad ones. I learned a great deal from both. From the bad, untalented people, you learn what not to do. And when you work with very highly talented people, you want to emulate them.

I'm only 27 but still I've had a lot of experience just playing with different teams, different coaches, different players.

All the different coaches and styles of play I've seen helped me develop, to relate to my teammates.

I think the best players in the world make the players around them better. And I'm always trying to do that.

I am here just to learn, to improve, to help my team improve.

T-Lue is as bright as they come. He's incredible at making adjustments, holding guys accountable, relating.

I've seen Coach Saban over the years have to make a lot of tough decisions, and there's not one decision he doesn't make that he doesn't bounce ideas off the staff. To me, that's invaluable.

I think I'm going to improve a team the day I get there, honestly. I think I can be the guy who can play right away, the guy who can sit if I need to and learn.

I feel my overall skill set, my ability to make players around me better, and my ability to help my team win is unique.

Coach Dunleavy has done a great job of humbling me, letting me go out there and make mistakes and I've got a great feel for the game right now.

That's part of the process of the longer you play, you can help the guys around you.

I know people are going to put the main focus on stopping me, so I need to learn how to make my teammates better by passing and creating opportunities for them.

Any captain will take some time to settle down. Nobody is an outstanding leader straightaway.

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.

Few leaders are born. We learn to be leaders. We learn by working with other people and working through our philosophy.