John Delaney Quotes

You need to have discussions and make sure you guide players towards the collective spirit. It can't be done overnight.

Each manager has their own ideas that they want to get across to the players, and how to do it.

If the vision is not right and if the right group of players is not together, it doesn't come together.

I have to put my team in a good situation.

If the chief executive cannot have a party background, how can she ensure her team is wholeheartedly united?

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

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.

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

You can lead a team in a lot of different ways. It can be talking to somebody who is down or, during the course of a game, looking to penetrate and then dropping the ball off to someone else for an easy bucket.

Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.

I don't put together cars, I put together people.

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

I'd like to think that every captain around the world has a vision of how they want their teams to play and most of them are allowed to take their teams forward in their own way.

Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine.

What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it's like a coach-player relationship.

I'll continue to try to make changes to better improve the team.

And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.

Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about.

I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful.

My role at Lockheed Martin puts me in contact with extraordinary leaders in many fields - from science and engineering to philanthropy and government. And since we also work closely with our nation's armed forces, we tend to reflect a lot on leadership and how we can inspire successful teamwork, cooperation, and partnerships.

I always focus on team building - both in office and at home.

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

I'm a teamworker.

I think all you can worry is that you make the team the very best they can be.

Always, at a big team, there's very hard competition.