Neil Warnock Quotes

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.

Players have responsibility, and if they don't do their job, certain things happen. Coaches have responsibility. If they don't do their job, things happen.

What Australians expect of leaders is a bit of integrity.

I never left a team in worse shape than I got it. Not once.

Captains need to lead well and play within the laws of the game. There cannot be any compromise on that count.

It's about how you handle yourself, how you take care of your business, how you present yourself in front of the team, how you hold other people accountable. And ultimately, performing.

Our players are educated. They know. If you knowingly break the rules, we're going to move on. We'll find someone else to play quarterback.

A captain has to be able to look a player in the eye before he starts his run-up or goes out to bat.

I've got no interest in justifying myself to a player of mine.

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.

What you do on the court, off the court, in the classroom, it's all the same. Your habits, the way you treat class, your relationships - it's all the same. Do it right or don't do it.

In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.

I think there's nothing that's not important. Everything you do - from how you connect with the guys in the locker room, to how you learn, to how you play on the field - everything's important; everything goes with the position.

Character in leadership is the most important balance for leadership. Without character, leaders have no safety. Leadership has no protection without character.

The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the umpires instead of their teams.

Nobody but you and your caddie care what you do out there, and if your caddie is betting against you, he doesn't care, either.

People shouldn't be interested in me. They should be interested in me if I'm not doing what I promise.

It's not just what you do on the pitch, it's what you do off the pitch.

When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.

A leader must be a good listener. He must be willing to take counsel. He must show a genuine concern and love for those under his stewardship.

I wanted to trust in my partners and the directors and producers and do the best I can to deliver what I could deliver.

I tend to be a person who starts with the presumption that I should trust you until you abuse the privilege, and then our relationship is forever changed. That's a very big line, and chances are it's not going to work if it's crossed. I warn people that this is how I'm going to deal with it.

When someone invests in you, I don't want to disappoint them. I want to be the player they think they're getting.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

To be honest, the fact that people trust you gives you a lot of power over people. Having another person's trust is more powerful than all other management techniques put together.