Kerri Walsh Quotes

Playing quarterback, you rely on everybody. Everybody impacts you.

I think the quarterback position, moreso than in all of sports, no other position compares - you rely on so many people to do your job.

I want to make sure when my team is having difficulties, they can count on me.

A coach can help only so much. Out on the field you need a partner.

I enjoy being held accountable, I enjoy holding my teammates accountable and being someone that my teammates can depend on.

When you're on a good team, you just want to do your part and know that they trust you.

As a QB, it's a team game, and you're all out there in it.

I want a strong team-mate and one that is challenging me.

As a goalkeeper, I needed good players around me. I needed Nemanja Vidic, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Wayne Rooney. It's the same as a CEO.

That's what my job is; just get the ball to my guys.

A captain has to be able to look a player in the eye before he starts his run-up or goes out to bat.

As coaches say, it's about finding your role. We're coming together as a team.

You want to have that trust with your QB; you want to build that camaraderie throughout your team and just have that relationship with them, so when you're out there, he doesn't have anything to worry about. He tells you to run this route, you run it to the best of your ability and be there for him.

Football is a collective sport, but goalkeeping is an individual sport.

You automatically are trusting because not only is the person a friend, they are so incredibly gifted that you know someone is going to be able to hit the ball back to you across the net.

That's how you get a performance - they put trust in you.

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.

A good leader should focus on making sure everyone is being given the tools to do their job, not just expecting - poof! - that they're going to produce great work.

A coach's greatest asset is his sense of responsibility - the reliance placed on him by his players.

Within an ensemble, like in sports, if you do your little job, it makes everybody look good.

Our contribution purely depends on our consciousness and our willingness to support those in need, to show vulnerability and accept the support of others, to share without expecting the credit, to give it our all and allow our hard work to decide the outcome, to understand that control can only be achieved with a shared responsibility.

Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.

There's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you're not a true ally to the person who's in charge of all that.

I think a good relationship is about collaboration.

The one thing that I know is that you win with good people.