Edgar Davids Quotes

I feel like I've paid attention to all the great coaches who have coached me.

It's been years since I've had a real input in the game anyway. For this game, I've just tried to keep all the other stuff away from the players and coaches.

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

A big part of the job of being a showrunner is, in my way of thinking, being a good communicator because there's really no other way to have hope for getting what you want, at the end of the day.

I think it is really important to have two drivers who want to push the team in the right direction rather than fighting against one another.

Good teams understand how to compete, how to practice the right way.

I've played in a lot of different roles through the course of my career and I've been a starter for a lot of those years and the mentality can never change.

I'm really looking forward to joining 'Mike & Mike.' It will be a tremendous challenge.

If your No. 1 priority isn't winning, and people can tell? That's the battle. Now there's a problem between people, because that guy's No. 1 priority is winning, and that guy's isn't.

The important thing is to build a good team, a good block and get results from there.

I like building teams and I want to run my own show, in the nicest possible way, to see how far I can go, starting with getting Macclesfield further up the table.

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.

The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.

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.

So if the players trust the coach, it's not a problem. If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.

Leadership must be likeable, affable, cordial, and above all emotional. The fashion of authoritarian leadership is gone. Football is about life. You can't be angry all day.

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

Climbing has worked for me in a number of ways on Capitol Hill. I'm much more inclined to look at what people do, as opposed to what they say. Also, it's about working together - we're all on the rope together, and you don't get to cut the rope if you're not getting along with someone.

I have played on many teams throughout my career, and I know when a team has the tools, and the right positive attitude towards winning.

I got along with people very well at every job I had, people liked me and I liked them and I loved being on my feet.

Hire people who are smarter than you, and don't be afraid to work with them as partners. Make it clear that you plan to learn from them, not just the other way around. The right, smart, motivated people respond very well to that approach, particularly coming from a younger manager like I am.

If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.

I played on teams with 24 guys pulling the rope one way and one guy pulling the other. I've seen how destructive it can be. I tell them, 'If 13 of you are insanely successful and one fails, we all lose.'

There's no way a director can communicate with every single person on the set and yet they need to motivate and instill an ambition to want to do their best work.

Great leaders help their people see how they can directly impact the company's objectives and their own personal goals.