Ryan Tannehill Quotes

I take the role of leadership as the most important job I have. Yes, it's the passes and all the different things you have to do, but it's leading and it's in the huddle and it's in the weight room and the meeting rooms. It's that role I think comes first.

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.

Every team that I've played on, I've either been the captain or co-captain.

I expect all the players, even the younger ones, to show leadership in their own way.

My job as the associate head coach was to make sure the head coach has everything he needs. That's my job. Whatever he needs me to do and whatever I see fit to do to help the team win.

On the pitch, I have always had that responsibility to lead the team. But, of course, when you are captain, players, especially the young ones, they look at you more for the things you do on and off the pitch. But I have always been a very calm person.

My goal is to play a lot, more often, and to be a leader.

You need a lot of leaders, but a hockey team needs a voice, not only in the community, but more importantly between the coaching staff and the players. There are always ups and downs in a season; the captain is the guy players look to in those situations.

I love to be directed. They can trust me and go.

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

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

The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.

I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives.

It's not a successful captain that makes a successful team.

I'm going to do all I can, control what I can control and I think one thing I can do beyond just playing the best I can is to start really coaching and leading other people so that I can never walk off the field saying, 'Hey, I did my part but so-and-so didn't,' that can't happen.

I knew that to be successful, I had to be more than a scorer. I had to become a leader. It's not about scoring. It's about doing what my team needs me to do.

Dealing with LeBron is like a friendship. Coaching, but he understands that I am the boss, and I am going to call the shots, and he is fine with that.

It's always a tough process when you're always the best guy on your team, in high school, in middle school, AAU and things like that. Then you come together, and you may not be the best guy on the team. You may have to adjust. You may not be a go to scorer. You may have to be a picker. You may have to be a rebounder.

Many times, my role was to work as a link between the coaches and the players; it was to be a leader. That was something natural for me.

The captain tag is something that players vote on, head coaches they give their title to. It requires a player that you think exemplifies leadership.

I need to go play the right way, listen to LeBron and be a sponge and try to soak up what he's going to tell me.

I think the toughest job in football is always to be the starter, because everybody looks to you for guidance.

Players will get you above average. To get to the elite, you need culture and leadership.

Being the main guy for three or four years, I understood what it took to be the leader.

I'd say it was always in me - it's just what's required of you is very different in the moment that you become leader. When you're part of a team, you defer, and you're there to support your leader.