Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma Quotes

You can't lead your troops if your troops do not trust you.

If you're a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

Leadership is having the trust of the people are trying to lead.

If the captain stands still and looks clueless, then it spreads to the whole team.

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

I'm not capable of being in a group where I'm not the leader. I did it once earlier in my career with Legacy, and that was cool because I was young and green and a rookie in the industry, but now no more.

I know how to lead.

I think I am capable of captaincy.

I would rather say whoa to a leader than gittie up.

To get the best out of your men, they must feel that you are their real leader and must know that they can depend upon you.

Every decision he made, I think everybody bought into it. Whether you understood it or not, you bought into it. Because he's a champion. He's won five of these or something like that, so you've got to trust a guy that's been here before and his view for our team.

Don may yawn at the idea, which he often does, but the great thing about Don, he has confidence in me and Mike and Ed and Leslie and Steve, that we're not going go out and do stories that will put people to sleep.

If the national coach lets decisions be made from outside, he's lost the team.

It's a bit loose and the people in my group have got other groups. They don't have to have a total allegiance to me. I think that's really a bit weird and showing some weird insecurity.

When I come to a design decision, people know that is that.

Everybody wants to be led. Except for me. I want to lead.

I've always been a leader. Every team I've played on, I've led my way.

Always, in every human action, there are leaders.

Anytime you have a Pat Riley running things, calling the shots, you are not going to question things because he has been through it. He knows what it is all about and what it takes to win. All we have to do on our end is play basketball because we know the right calls and the right decisions are going to be made up top.

Somebody said, 'You may be a committee chair.' I don't think so. I don't think anybody would want me that much.

I'm not comparing myself with anyone, but I am very confident about my captaincy, as I have already led India and in the IPL also. I have confidence I can bring out each player's ability fully and also give them a lot of confidence... I would like to stick to what I know best and what I have confidence in.

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

In order to be a lieutenant, you've got to have authority in your voice. No matter how young your face looks, you've got to let your guys know that you're in charge.

Leadership is something you earn, something you're chosen for. You can't come in yelling, 'I'm your leader!' If it happens, it's because the other guys respect you.

I have to give him and I have to have 100 percent of his confidence…. If I do not have his confidence, someone else should be chief of staff.