Bradley Wright-Phillips Quotes

My role is just be a leader on the court, be a team player, and that's what I am.

It's not a successful captain that makes a successful team.

To say that the captain makes the team lose or win is not correct.

Always, at a big team, there's very hard competition.

Getting the best out of your best players gets the best out of the team.

People need to know their role to produce performances and results.

As a manager, you manage a team and there are good periods where there are good feelings in the group.

I have to put my team in a good situation.

I don't like to talk about myself. I don't want to talk about what I do, what I think I do. The position I play on the pitch, I am expected - and I expect - to create chances for my team-mates and score goals.

As a captain, I am concerned about my team and how I perform. I have hopes from my own self and very high hopes from my team members.

I think what helps enormously is the cultural environment that you have set. We constantly try to monitor it. When you have a base to work from that holds it together, that's something that you can go back to and rely on. A lot of is down to the consistency of work, the consistency of message and the consistency of the players' performances.

If the right people do the right things, we can walk, we can have a future. But if people don't put time into it to make it run in a right way, I don't think your team will work.

If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.

Leadership is an active role; 'lead' is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry.

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.

There is no real magic to being a good leader. But at the end of every week, you have to spend your time around the things that are really important: setting priorities, measuring outcomes, and rewarding them.

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 learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.

I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.

If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.

A manager doesn't hear the cheers.

The top players talk more now, and we have more meetings. We're just trying to get things better. But we still need somebody who could make a difference.

I love sports, and when I was playing soccer, I was always trying to be the leader on the team and the one who takes control.