Bob Stoops Quotes

When you run a part of the relay and pass on the baton, there is no sense of unfinished business in your mind. There is just the sense of having done your part to the best of your ability. That is it. The hope is to pass on the baton to somebody who will run faster and run a better marathon.

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.

You lead with direction, and you try to lead by example. I try to be there when things are not good and obviously share the spoils of success.

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'm not going away. I'll still be very much involved in the team but not with the same number of hours. I need to move over and allow the people who are really doing the job the space to do so.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

Sometimes, it's good to have a tremendous star, because everyone understands he has to get the ball.

I probably do better when I'm in charge. But it's good to be able to be a part of something and be a supporter and help make a project work.

Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power. And I try to model that in all of my interactions.

My job is to help Virat in the field. He is the captain, and whenever he looks up around, I should be around to complement him and help him as much as I could.

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.

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

I'm very happy to shoulder the responsibility for my football team.

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

It's easy on teams when you have got superstars. I mean, they're really good. And you give them the ball, and you say, 'Make a play.'

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.

My father, my first coach, would never let me punk out if I was capable of helping the team.

It is definitely what my aim is to get everyone to do their part and take on that responsibility of being a leader - whether you are playing or on the bench or if you have not made the team.

When you're the starter, there are certain things that you're able to do as far as leading and stuff like that. So, really having to kind of take a step back in a leadership role I would say is the toughest role for 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.

It takes a special individual to be a coach to pay attention to all that bad stuff and keep people accountable.

Every time I get on the court, I want to push my teammates to be better as a leader and lead by example.

One of the things you look for is leadership, and it comes in different forms. There's vocal leaders, there's quiet leaders, there's leaders that lead by example.

My main role is to help the team. And I love that role. And I love that my teammates feel comfortable coming to me.

I let the coach do his job.