Ernesto Valverde Quotes

Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

Fighters display two things. They display confidence, or they display a look that says, 'I'm not sure.'

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

I've never been scared of contact. Now I get to bring it, that's what I love to do, so I'm going to bring it.

The blood more stirs  To rouse a lion than to start a hare!

I am a tough guy.

Courage breeds leadership.

I don't fear anyone. We don't come to play in this sport.

I wouldn't want to get in the ring with me, I can promise you that.

Was Effenberg a leader because he projected presence or because he had a presence? There is a difference.

I feel like I'm a tough guy.

At Old Trafford, we are not afraid of anyone.

Billy Bremner... was the captain of a very successful side. He was quite small but feisty as anything and that's what I love, playing with people that get stuck in and don't get bullied by other teams.

A general never shows despair. He instills confidence in his troops. He leads them forward, even into the mouth of death.

When we think of [John F. Kennedy], he is without a hat, standing in the wind and weather. He was impatient of topcoats and hats, preferring to be exposed, and he was young enough and tough enough to enjoy the cold and the wind of those times.... It can be said of him, as of few men in a like position, that he did not fear the weather, and did not trim his sails, but instead challenged the wind itself, to improve its direction and to cause it to blow more softly and more kindly over the world and its people.

I won't be threatened or intimidated by anyone and I've always been prepared to do what is necessary to defend my interests.

A great leader also has the ability to make people an inch taller in his presence.

The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don't have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven't had that fear.

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

People don't follow titles, they follow courage.

We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

All our lives are enriched by the leadership and excellence and confidence of female athletes, whether the Mia Hamms and Maya Moores we know or the field hockey, lacrosse and track and field athletes we do not necessarily know.

We are not intimidated by the size of the armies, or the type of hardware the US has brought.

In Ronald Reagan's case, he always bore with him this extraordinary ability to radiate confidence, optimism, clarity, a blitheness of spirit, in what other people saw as chaos. And after the 1970s, that was catnip.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.