Matteo Manassero Quotes

I believe in Coach Louis Wong. He is so much more than just a football coach.

To be a great leader, you firstly have to like people. If you don't like people, at the end of the day they will figure this out and you can't lead them too well.

One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motivational speaker - an inspirational speaker. Motivation comes from within. You have to be inspired. That's what I do. I inspire people, I inspire the public, I inspire my staff. I inspired the organizations I took over to want to succeed.

I feel like every word I say now, I can really inspire people.

It's getting better and better. You know, guys are feeling more comfortable and they are not afraid to speak up and be a leader. I mean, our team, we have 25 players, we have about 25 leaders, too. So whatever someone says, people listen.

I was a general business major, which meant that in any business school and particularly at Smith School, which is a very good school, you do a lot of team projects. Well I was the guy who gave the presentations for the team projects.

Leaders lead. They don't divide; they don't create a climate that is poisonous.

I wish I could talk like Donald Trump or Steve Wynn. Hell, I'd love it.

First of all, I try to be a positive role model.

I know how to lead people; I know how to make people love me.

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

At the heart of leadership is the leader's relationship with followers. People will entrust their hopes and dreams to another person only if they think the other is a reliable vessel.

Kennedy understood something that is not so obvious, and that is that words are more important than deeds. You can’t govern 300 million people—or 180 million when Kennedy was president—by doing things. You can only do it by rhetoric.

People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.

I'm a role model as a footballer and not as a politician. I want to see myself as a footballer. People respect me for my performances. That's why they support me, and I'm very thankful for that. But I'm not a politician.

I feel powerful when I'm onstage talking to an audience. I like communicating; it feels like my calling in the world. Knowing what you're meant to be doing with your life is pretty bloody powerful.

I'm pretty quiet, but my best quality is leading by example.

I'm somebody who inspires by his own performances, by the way he conducts himself on and off the field. My discipline... I look to inspire by my actions, not just words.

If somebody says I'm a leader or notices the things I try to do to be a leader, it's the ultimate compliment.

If you want to lead, you better love people. Even if you don't like them, you have to love them enough to tell them the truth.

I think that's kind of who I am. I just try to be vocal and try to lead by example.

Daniel Cormier has been a model champion. He will be a champion for the rest of his life.

I was all about touching people and influencing people, I always been that type of person. I was the one teaching people things, I just always had a way with my words and I always spoke with substance.

I want to take this time to thank Daniel Cormier for being my biggest rival and motivator. He has absolutely no reason to hang his head. He has been a model champion, a model husband, a model father, a teammate, a leader, and I aspire to be a lot more like that man, because he's an amazing human being.

My motivation in personal and professional life is my dad because the way he has played and inspired many other players to play cricket the correct way. He had a great professional life and has always been an outspoken man.