Richard Donner Quotes

You have to give guys tools to win with, and if they have success with them then they believe in you. If you don't have anything in your bag to work with, then they won't believe.

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

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

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.

A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.

The one thing that I know is that you win with good people.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

It's always good when followers believe in their leaders, but it's even better when leaders believe in their followers.

The coin of the realm of leadership is trust and confidence.

The most important thing I've done at work has been to surround myself with amazing people who I trust and empower fully to do stuff better than I could.

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

The more you rely/trust and believe in your team and the bigger the investment you make in getting them to their greatness, the larger will be the commitment, engagement, and outright devotion they have when it comes to you.

My idea is bring in good people and then get out of their way.

The owner or president is the person who controls the club. The coach's job is to keep him happy. But the key to success, as a manager, is your relationship with the players. Important clubs and important players succeed when the environment is correct. The players must enjoy their work and feel free to express their talents.

You can be the best manager in the world, but if the players don't trust you, it will never work.

It is good for a manager to believe in the ability that you've got and give you the confidence to go out and enjoy your football.

It means a lot to me as a quarterback if my receivers think I'm a good quarterback. It doesn't really matter what everybody else thinks, but it means a lot to me when I feel like those guys trust me.

I've got the best coaches in the world. I've got confidence in them, and they've got confidence in me.

As a goalkeeper, I needed good players around me. I needed Nemanja Vidic, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Wayne Rooney. It's the same as a CEO.

The best way I know to get good work out of people is to create a good environment so that people have a good experience. I try to always hold up my own end by being prepared.

A captain has to be able to look a player in the eye before he starts his run-up or goes out to bat.

Trust gives you the permission to give people direction, get everyone aligned, and give them the energy to go get the job done. Trust enables you to execute with excellence and produce extraordinary results. As you execute with excellence and deliver on your commitments, trust becomes easier to inspire, creating a flywheel of performance.

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing.

Don may yawn at the idea, which he often does, but the great thing about Don, he has confidence in me and Mike and Ed and Leslie and Steve, that we're not going go out and do stories that will put people to sleep.

I think that I've learned to relax, and trust in and hire very talented people, and trust in their abilities a little more.