Michael Cooper Quotes

You don't get any better unless you're around guys who know more than you.

When I left City I was still young and there was a lot for me to learn in all parts of my game. To come back and have learned something at a place like Chelsea is down partly to the kind of players I played alongside.

What I'm worried about is our team and our players developing and getting better. That's the most important thing.

I've always tried to grow people rather than cricketers.

People don't understand that, when I was at WCW, if I wasn't wrestling that night, I was down at the Power Plant teaching. I was teaching people how to do stuff, but every time you teach someone, you learn more. The more you learn, the more you teach. The more you teach, the better you get.

I've just got better as a player thanks to Pep.

I began my journey as a captain when I was just 21-22 and leading the Indian side for so many years has helped me also grow as a person. My growth as a person pretty much has happened on the ground along with teammates.

Every player can still grow - there is no limit to that. Even when I was 38, I improved myself in certain things, and that is what I will always do with my players to help them get the best out of themselves.

My best investment, as cliched as this sounds, is the money I've spent developing myself, via books, workshops and coaching. Leadership begins within, and to have a better career, start by building a better you.

If you have a coach helping you, developing your skills alongside you, that's when you're on your way to becoming not just a participant but achieving.

Surround yourself with people you can always learn something from. Always work with people that are better at their craft than you are.

You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player.

I think the only way you learn is to surround yourself with people that are better than you.

Training has been such a huge part of my life and career I hope to keep going with it.

I'm trying to be a sponge. People say, 'Well, that's what your rookie year is.' I still feel that way in my second year.

I always try to work with people who are better than me, so I can learn more.

No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how you can get better. So for me, the most fundamental thing about leadership is to have the humility to continue to get feedback and to try to get better - because your job is to try to help everybody else get better.

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

We could all use more coaching.

Don't ever think, no matter how old you are, that you don't need to be coached.

You always want to improve, learn from the veterans on the team.

The whole thing is develop players, develop them as people, develop teams.

I always try to give my best and improve my skills as per the changing trends of the game.

A great leader should make it clear to her team members that as a matter of culture, her job is to replace herself. A new hire should know from the outset that she will ultimately have to bring in new talent to replace herself so that she can personally better herself and achieve loftier goals.

I think the coaches have to play a big role in the players' development.