Stephen Covey Quotes

I play a complicated position in an intensely team-oriented game.

My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work.

True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision.

In business it's about people. It's about relationships.

In any team sport, the best teams have consistency and chemistry.

I always felt if you were going to be successful, make sure you get good people. You win with great players. Coaches don't win games. Players win games.

Leadership contains certain elements of good management, but it requires that you inspire, that you build durable trust. For an organization to be not just good but to win, leadership means evoking participation larger than the job description, commitment deeper than any job contract's wording.

Teams that consistently perform at the highest levels are able to come together and be unified across the organization - staff, players, coaches, management, and ownership. When everyone is on the same page, trust develops, and teams can grow and succeed together.

I'm like a point guard. Barack is about ideas and questions, and I don't have all the answers. He trusts me to pass the ball to others to give him points of view.

In all things, you need a good organization. You can have the best player in the world; if you do not have the best team, you will not win.

The owner or president is the person who controls the club. The coach's job is to keep him happy. But the key to success, as a manager, is your relationship with the players. Important clubs and important players succeed when the environment is correct. The players must enjoy their work and feel free to express their talents.

Tactics are so important because everybody has to know what they have to do on the pitch. The relationships and behaviours off the pitch between team-mates have to be as good as possible.

Playing quarterback, you rely on everybody. Everybody impacts you.

You can have X's and O's, you can have talent, but if you don't have a vision, it won't work.

A quarterback has to trust the quarterback coach. And the quarterback coach has to trust him.

You work to make sure that, in the game, everybody knows where they're supposed to be at, and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But if you put them in a position to be successful, that's all you can ask for.

I get on well with Mourinho. He trusts me and knows what I can give to the team.

What you do is build your team around your core. Some teams have one main guy - not many, but some do - and you build around that. If you have a bunch of good players, that's another way to go about it - through depth, teamwork, defense, and fundamentals.

Trust is the one thing that affects everything else you're doing. It's a performance multiplier which takes your trajectory upwards, for every activity you engage in, from strategy to execution.

Trust gives you the permission to give people direction, get everyone aligned, and give them the energy to go get the job done. Trust enables you to execute with excellence and produce extraordinary results. As you execute with excellence and deliver on your commitments, trust becomes easier to inspire, creating a flywheel of performance.

I think it's important to remember that you go into something like marriage knowing that you don't know very much about it at all. But I do look at the marriage of my mother and stepdad, and what makes it work for them is that it's a team effort.

If the right people do the right things, we can walk, we can have a future. But if people don't put time into it to make it run in a right way, I don't think your team will work.

Actors are not all there when it comes to things like relationships. The thing about us is we still greatly enjoy each other. If it weren't for her support it would be hard for me to do what I am doing now.

That's how you get a performance - they put trust in you.

My mum always told me 95 per cent of success was partnering well.