Paul George Quotes

As a former NCAA basketball player, many of the skills I now rely on as a leader took root on the basketball court: teamwork, integrity, and resilience are just some of the traits I've carried over into my professional game.

I was in the hockey team in school, played football. One of the challenges for me was to make the team feel better. It helped me evolve, so batting at different positions was never a problem.

Not only do the majority of senior women executives have sports in their background, they recognize that the behaviors and techniques learned through sports are critical to motivating teams and improving performance in a corporate environment.

What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it's like a coach-player relationship.

I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful.

I was a coach, and I put a lot of education and experience into coaching.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

I think I'd probably shine really well in a team sport, but as everybody knows, I don't handle politics very well. A lot of team sports has a lot of politics. Individual sports, it's all about me.

It's important to keep your long term perspective and communicate well both externally and internally.

Learning to play different roles has made me a more all-round midfielder.

I've enjoyed the captaincy when I've done it at Middlesex and with England.

A lot of people can score. What else can you do?

LeBron is the best player in our league, but some people have a hard time playing with him.

As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.

The Leader will be a person with the management skills to coordinate the activities of the Team, and to assure that the Team remains faithful to the objectives of the incoming President.

I think there are lots of ways to exercise ambition and accomplish things using leadership without going into elected politics. So, categorically, I have no intention of going into elected politics. None.

Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.

Coaches have told me I can help the team much more if I don't talk, if I don't moan.

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

During my freshman year at Cornell, I joined my dorm's intramural football team. At the first practice, upper classmen pointed out I was tall, so I should try playing QB. Well half an hour later, it was abundantly clear that I should not be the QB.

My job is to give my team a chance to win.

I've played sports pretty much my whole life, and that teaches you how to work with anyone, whether you like that person or you don't, and whether you get along with them or you don't. The circumstances don't matter. Team work is part of life.

The most challenging part of being CEO is communicating to 200,000 people what you want done.