David Moyes Quotes

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

I need to have a great deal of control and the ability to share my control with my collaborators and grant them the freedom and the quality of work I think these people deserve. If I don't have those elements, I walk away.

They've kind of backed off and allowed me to do what I do. I think that's the biggest testament is that they know when to have a hand in things, and they know when to back off, let me work, and let me do my thing. During my time in NXT, they have definitely done that.

In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

They are amazing kids so we let them make decisions but also have discipline.

My parents never condescended to me. As a child, I always sat at the head of our dinner table. I was always given a lot of responsibility.

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

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

You are on the ground. You see the needs of the situation, and I shall back up whatever you do.

I give people a huge amount of rope, and then I hold them accountable for the rope.

Coach Boeheim, he's really not like a lot of coaches. We don't do shoot-arounds, we don't have curfews. So I think he teaches you how to be a man and how to be responsible for yourself.

I felt that I had, again, great freedom to do what I wanted to do. I felt that I was trusted to train my soldiers, and I was accountable for it.

Anytime the coach gives you the ball and some encouragement, you get a sense of freedom.

When the players go home, I can't tell them what to do, so you need to create an atmosphere of trust. I don't want to think, 'What are they doing now? Do I need to call them?'

You have to empower your employees to make their own choices and trust that they will make the right choices.

If you're going to give people authority and hold them responsible and ultimately accountable for their performance, you've got to get out of the way.

That's how you get a performance - they put trust in you.

I wouldn't ask any of my employees to do anything I wouldn't do. And I work as hard, if not harder than the rest of the staff, to set an example. I also believe in giving my employees a lot of room to be creative and to express themselves.

I've learned a huge amount because I've been tested and, more importantly, I've been trusted.

I don't work with people who ask me questions.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

I believe managing is like holding a dove in your hand. If you hold it too tightly you kill it, but if you hold it too loosely, you lose it.

I think I'm mostly looking forward to the college life. I'm looking forward to more freedom. Here everything is really structured and scheduled, but in college you've got to be more responsible and you can get things done on your own time. I'm really looking forward to that.

And I'm the kind of manager that doesn't believe that you micro-manage professionals. They should understand their responsibility and carry out those responsibility.

Is it important to have a crew behind me? No, it's important to have me behind them. That's how I look at it. You can't just roll with a situation like you're depending on somebody to help you. You're supposed to help the situation, whatever the situation is that you're in.