Ranulph Fiennes Quotes

We probably spend more time talking about individual players in our coaching sessions than anything else.

I manage a team, for beach soccer. I'm the coach. Player, coach.

I want to spend my time exploring the characters we've already got here. I want to give them more time to shine before the team gets to have 400 members.

I know that any group of people can become a team if they do the right things, but I came to realize over time that if you acquire or develop the right kind of people, that process of building a team is going to be much more effective and easier.

In the dressing room, we know that Arsene Wenger is the boss.

As a coach you're able to have better relationships with the players because you're not picking the team.

Leadership is all about emotional intelligence. Management is taught, while leadership is experienced.

Historically almost every team I've managed has returned from even just a five-day break with improved physical output.

If you know my kind of football, you will know I'm about training sessions, working on habits. If you have the chance to do that, okay. If you don't though, it's not so easy to change something about the team.

The Avengers films, ideally, in the grand plan are always big, giant linchpins. It’s like as it was in publishing, when each of the characters would go on their own adventures and then occasionally team up for a big, 12-issue mega-event. Then they would go back into their own comics, and be changed from whatever that event was. I envision the same thing occurring after this movie, because the Avengers roster is altered by the finale of this film.

Bringing together disparate personalities to form a team is like a jigsaw puzzle. You have to ask yourself: what is the whole picture here? We want to make sure our players all fit together properly and complement each other, so that we don't have a big piece, a little piece, an oblong piece, and a round piece. If personalities work against each other, as a team you'll find yourselves spinning your wheels.

I have come, reluctantly, to the conclusion that Boris [Johnson] cannot provide the leadership or build the team for the task ahead.

Selling is the most important skill as an entrepreneur. I'm not talking so much about selling a product so much as selling yourself, team, and deals.

You must learn how to hold a team together. You must lift some men up, calm others down, until finally they've got one heartbeat. Then you've got yourself a team.

Your biggest challenge will be building a great team.

He doesn't need advice on how to play his position, but he needs advice on how to play team ball... If it's going to be my team, I'll voice my opinion. If he don't like it, he can opt out.

When I hear a company is being run by a team, my heart sinks, because you need to have that leader with a vision and heart that can move things forward.

The biggest thing that comes out of improv that gets built on is just character traits. You know, for me the singing was born out of improv.

One of the greatest joys of leadership is assembling and knitting together teams of fantastic people.

You take a team with twenty-five assholes and I'll show you a pennant. I'll show you the New York Yankees.

The 2002 (Olympic) team was a great team, we won the gold medal, they deserved all the accolades that they got. But this team seems to have a little more depth and maybe a little more talent to pick from. So it makes the job of picking the right 23 guys even more difficult.

You don't need a team leader, you need quality.

Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have.

Strength and independence are always something that I'm drawn to in all my characters, no matter how different they are from one another.

A leader's responsibility to his team is paramount. It overshadows even his own personal feelings at any given time.