Steph Houghton Quotes

A good leader should focus on making sure everyone is being given the tools to do their job, not just expecting - poof! - that they're going to produce great work.

I take the role of leadership as the most important job I have. Yes, it's the passes and all the different things you have to do, but it's leading and it's in the huddle and it's in the weight room and the meeting rooms. It's that role I think comes first.

As captain, you take a little bit more on board than probably just being a player.

For me, it is important to stay close to my players.

You've got to coach worrying about your entire team: whether that gets you a championship or whether that gets you fired. I think it allows you to coach free. You're coaching with freedom because you know you're doing what you think is right.

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.

I feel that a great coach is one that has a vision, sets a plan in place, has the right people in place to execute that plan and then accepts the responsibility if that plan is not carried out.

I've got a really great team around me. They're the ones that are in the restaurants on a day to day basis. Anyone that's good can't be stifled in any way. I don't baby people.

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

For sure I would be a very emotional captain. A very hands-on captain.

A conductor should guide rather than command.

I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives.

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

In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.

A captain shouldn't be chosen on the amount of goals he's going to score.

A coach coaches. That's what he does. That's what he's good at. He's not managing people. He manages his players, but that's different.

Leadership is an individual sport, one that has to be fine-tuned to each of the people that reports to you. Leaders also need to provide the direction, energy, encouragement and inspiration for each person who reports directly to the leader as well as for the overall organization.

The best way to supervise your men is from their reports that they make out.

Daniel Farke is so good, a man-manager - he is calm but he can shout if he thinks I'm not working.

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

I'm great at working with people and collaborating. And if my biggest gift of all is that I'm really good at pulling things from people and helping them become better at what they're doing, I'm here, as I believe all of us are, to be of service.

As a captain, I just want to lead the team properly.

My job as the associate head coach was to make sure the head coach has everything he needs. That's my job. Whatever he needs me to do and whatever I see fit to do to help the team win.

There are certain aspects that I miss of coaching. But you can't just pick out the good parts. You've got to be all-in and understand there's some negatives, too.

More often than not as a quarterback, your performance is a reflection of the guys around you. I've been fortunate to be around some pretty good guys.