Maya Moore Quotes

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

The book is actually called 'A Mentor Leader, a Different Way to Lead.' It really talks about my experience in the way I tried lead our football team, things that I learned from, basically, the coaches that I played for and my parents about leadership. And it is a little bit different, counter to maybe what society says about great leaders.

It was a hallmark of Nelson Mandela's leadership that being open to change made him appear not weaker, but even stronger.

To me, success in the job is setting a vision, guiding an organization through change - which is exactly what I did at Digitas, and I'm very proud of that - and bringing people together and with you. That, to me, is what it takes to be successful.

When you deal with change, you have a couple choices: you can lead it and make the rules, or you can be a fast follower, or you can be a slow follower.

Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need.

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Managers develop organisations; leaders develop people.

At the moment we need training for leadership.

If I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.

For me coaching is about seeing a vision and trying to sell that vision to the players through a day to day teaching of the job.

Every new coach is interesting.

I had many good managers: Wim Jansen, Martin O'Neill, Frank Rijkaard, and Alex Ferguson, to name just a few.

Guys that are young in the league. Guys that you get to teach them your way. It's not a bad thing. It's actually a good thing. It's working for them. Teach them that way, and I guarantee they aren't as stubborn and hard-headed as I was, which sometimes is good, sometimes is bad. But like I always say, I'm not going to change who I am.

The best leaders adapt and are flexible with their situations. I try to be the same.

One of the great things about coaching is it's a different challenge every day.

I would never rule out coaching.

To become a good coach, it is important to be equipped with tactics and strategy. But first of all, you need to have strong leadership.

I think there is a big and significant difference between being a leader and being a manager-leaders lead from the heart. You have to be analytical and flexible. Flexibility is one of the key ingredients to being successful. If you feel like it's difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding.

Coaches need to have a vision.

Change before you're forced to change.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

There's a time that may come in an organization where leading by influence is not enough. When things are not going the way they need to go, there's a time when one has to step up... to set the organization back on the right direction.

You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.

I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.