Malcolm Jenkins Quotes

To be successful in coaching you have to treat your team like a family. The leader needs backing from everyone.

Culture is very important to the Mavs. Your best player has to be a fit for what you want the culture of the team to be. He has to be someone who leads by example. Someone who sets the tone in the locker room and on the court. It isn't about who talks the most or the loudest. It is about the demeanor and attitude he brings.

Teams are made up of a lot of components. They're made up of hunger, they're made up of desire, they're made up of chemistry, and they're made up of emotion.

Leaders must establish common purpose and build trust within an organization.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It's a lesson I've had to relearn quite a few times.

I love being around my teammates, and I love leading and having responsibility.

For me the relationship you have with the coach is very important.

That's the number one thing for a guy for a new coach coming in. You've really got to buy into the system and believe it's going to work because, if you don't, it's going to cause conflict, and you're not always going to be on the same page as the other guys on the team or with the coach.

To build a winning culture, you are going to have to prove yourself.

You grow year after year with responsibility, and for me, it's not important who has the armband but that everyone on the pitch gives the right signals.

Having trust in your manager is the most important thing for a footballer.

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.

We need to trust our coaches. Unless we trust them we can't get the result.

My boys - T.J. Ward, Aqib Talib, Kayvon Webster, DeMarcus Ware, all those guys - I built very, very close relationships with those guys, and I would like to continue to build that for the rest of my career.

To know how I am very important to my team on defense, how my teammates need me on defense, it means a lot to me.

Real is when you go to training camp. Real is when you finally get the guys in pads. Real is those guys in that locker room setting those goals because we have some guys now that can set goals and expectations for those guys in the locker room because, ultimately, who are the Cleveland Browns but those guys in that locker room.

In any team sport, the best teams have consistency and chemistry.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.

I don't think I am that hands-on. I'm much more of a believer in finding a great team of people and trusting them to follow their instincts. They work better when they feel they have freedom and they are trusted.

I think sometimes when it comes to sports, and especially relationships between players and coaches, that people lose track, lose a sense of reality.

I have to give him and I have to have 100 percent of his confidence…. If I do not have his confidence, someone else should be chief of staff.

It isn't worth trying to lead if your people won't follow.

It is hard to get things done if you spend all of your time with the choir as opposed to the rest of the congregation.

Surround yourself with strong people, make sure they fully understand your principles, give them room to work, reward good performance and correct bad performance—and be sure they know you can tell the difference.

When you empower people you sign up for a life of uncertainty and change.