Quotes About Leadership

It's a big step up for me, coming from the Championship to the Premier League, and, at the end of the day, it's up to the gaffer when I play and what role I take up.

I've been the captain of a Premier League club, and I've coached some of the best players in the world.

I am sure that the important managers always want to work here in the Premier League.

My main aim is to finish as high up the top of the Premier League as possible. I have the ability to help teams survive.

For those who want to be a manager, the Premier League is the best place to work; at the very top.

Look to the Premier League. Are there any black managers? Look at the Italian league? Are there any black managers? The list goes on.

Managing in the Premier League isn't something I am fearful of.

I don't think you can manage 400 games in the Premier League, 550 in the Championship, play 980 times and not be a little bit organised.

There's plenty of points to play for in the Premier League.

It is not easy to bring the methods of a new manager to the Premier League.

And I know the risks of changing captaincy midway through a season. At Derby, it was a great compliment when Paul Jewell handed me the armband, and I was made captain of my fourth Premier League club, but it was awkward for Matt Oakley, who had it taken away from him.

And then when they picked me as premiere, I don't think I feel, you know, different. For me, the position mean responsibility, but that's all.

I offer something very different from the lifelong career politicians who have worked their way up to run for higher office or those who can parachute in with checks for $5 million or $10 million, and that seems to be the definition of credible or legitimate. I'm rejecting that premise.

I never accepted the premise that meetings themselves were bad.

Especially when it comes to national security, there is a premium on an administration speaking clearly, consistently and precisely, starting with the president.

Setting up a community and seeing what happens to it when the megalomaniacs get busy: that's my main preoccupation.

When you coach as long as I did, you can't help but miss those Saturdays - dealing with the players, the game preparation, the challenges, the excitement.

Running for president is hard. But it's good preparation. Because being president is a lot harder.

Virat has helped me with my preparation, mindset, and he has given me a lot of confidence.

As a coach I need to organise preparations for the team and give informed input to captain and the team to strategise better, inclusive of every player.

Nobody has had a bigger influence on me as far as day-to-day preparation than Todd Lickliter. He was a huge, huge, huge influence.

Iran believes that before Imam Mahdi reappears, it must prepare a fertile ground for him and that it must control the Muslim world.

It is always good to be away with a few of the older lads because you pick up so much from them every day. You see how they prepare for games, how they rest, and how they train.

This is something that I think has been going on for before I played football - just kind of guys sitting down with some of the younger guys to prepare them for what they'll be faced with.