Sergio Ramos Quotes

You have to be the parent; you can't be their friend.

You have to build a team, but someone's got to lead, and someone's got to be unpopular at times.

I think an owner needs to be present. When an owner is not present that's when things tend to go awry.

When I'm in the huddle, it is my huddle, and I mean, that's how it needs to operate.

No coach wants to sit back and not have control of the team.

I am better when I have control. I am not a power freak. But my point is that I need to feel that I can manage the team and have a direct, clear line through to the owners. Once that becomes hazy, for me, there is a problem.

If you're a manager you can't get frustrated and be emotional. You have to continue to steer the ship, you can't let go of the wheel because who knows where it will go then.

There wasn't a lot of discipline in my life, and I hated it being imposed on me at school.

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.

Let them police themselves, and then it goes another step past them to my coaches and there a coach that is responsible for a different area and different category on the field.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

There couldn't be better parents than mine, loving yet strict. They disciplined with love. A child without discipline is, in away, a lost child. You cannot have freedom without discipline.

I think that discipline is so much of an important part of being a parent. Because it's very, very important to teach your children to take responsibility for their actions.

Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

My parents never really lecture me.

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

In a very real way, ownership is the essence of leadership. When you are 'ridiculously in charge,' then you own whatever happens in a company, school, et cetera.

Being responsible, I will direct, and will be responsible for nothing that I do not direct.

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

If You are a man who leads, charged to direct the affairs of a great number, be careful of your every deeds, so that your conduct may be blameless.

The man in charge must concern himself with details. If he does not consider them important, neither will his subordinates.

I follow the roles.

I can lead my team.

When you're a director, the job itself forces you to take charge.