Shaquille O'Neal Quotes

He says all the right things, like it's Jeter's team. I want to correct him on that - it's my team.

When I'm in the huddle, it is my huddle, and I mean, that's how it needs to operate.

As a general, and as a leader of this team, whatever I've got to do get my guys going I'll do it every time. If I have to be the bad guy sometime, I'll guess I'll take that. That's what a leader and a general and a chief of police does. Everybody is not going to like it, but I don't care if they like or not. I'm Bush, so if they don't like it resign.

I've always been a leader. Every team I've played on, I've led my way.

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.

When the public or the Council pass the buck up to me I am going to act.

My role is the same with or without the armband.

It is important to have leadership groups, but at the end of the day I need to be taking the call because I'm responsible for the team and I should know exactly what I'm doing and I believe in that.

Every day in practice I have to lead by example. But at the same time, when people aren't doing what they're supposed to be doing, you're responsible as a player. You can't rely on the coaches to say everything. The players have to be responsible and take ownership of the team. Every day in practice there are situations where you need to say something and get a message across, but do it in the right way.

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.

Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.

I am pretty tough as a boss.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

If I wanted, I could have ruled half of Bombay.

All leaders share something in common. They feel they are the only ones who can do the job.

I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area.

I think trust is primarily built through relationships, and it's important because it's the foundational currency that a leader has with his team or his followers.

I realize that as the quarterback, you have to assume some sort of leadership role because you have to talk in the huddle on every play, and you're essentially giving out orders to the team. But in my mind, I have to prove myself on the field before I can start asserting a leadership role.

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

If you work with convictions, people have got to listen to you.

You don't get taken seriously by asking someone to take you seriously. You've got to show up and own it.

I do tend to be a leader in situations in my own life.

I think every player should think that he's a difference maker.

I am and always will be a leader.

To me it's like, every time I'm a director, like today, you're the captain of the ship, so you better dress like it. You're the host of the party.