Allen Iverson Quotes

In the IPL, you are often single-handedly responsible for the fortunes of your team. It makes you more responsible as a player.

Any time a team doesn't score points, it's on me.

As a captain, I can't make the same mistake twice. As a player, you can get away with that, but if the captain does that, then it affects the whole team.

Every single player has to take responsibility for what they do. Look at the Manchester United team that won the Champions League in 2008, they didn't have a 'leader' like Roy Keane any more.

You've got to coach worrying about your entire team: whether that gets you a championship or whether that gets you fired. I think it allows you to coach free. You're coaching with freedom because you know you're doing what you think is right.

We know that in order for us to turn this around, it doesn't matter how many coaches they bring in here, assistants, weight trainers, whoever, we're the ones that are going to have turn it around. And I think just took that responsibility on ourselves.

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.

Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.

Any captain can only do his best for the team and for cricket. When you are winning, you are a hero. Lose, and the backslappers fade away.

I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.

If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.

Being a leader requires being confident enough in your own decisions and those of your team to own them when they fail. The very best leaders take the blame but share the credit.

I think when you're doing a lead role, there is so much more pressure. If you fail, not only do you fail, but everybody else fails, too. As opposed to when it's a supporting role and it's only you that sucked.

The statesman must weigh the rewards of success against the penalties of failure. And he is permitted only one guess.

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

To say that the captain makes the team lose or win is not correct.

Anytime you're playing with a team that's losing, the main guy is going to take a lot of the heat.

If things are not going well on the field, then it's up to me to lead by example.

People think that footballers just have a kick around with their mates. If they win, fine; if they don't, that's then fine, too. No pasa nada. No. You have an obligation and responsibility.

I expect myself to do my job, and that's taking care of the football and converting third downs.

Everything falls on the quarterback.

You're the quarterback, if you lose games... it's the head coach and the quarterback. If you're not winning, it's on you.

Sometimes a manager can only do so much, as in prepare a team, and then the team have to go out there and perform.

You will always be judged as a Liverpool player but, as a captain, you will be judged on what you win, basically. If you're doing well, and the team is winning everything, you become a very good captain.

When things go well, everyone talks well of you and vice versa. Unfortunately, football is like that.