Quotes About Leadership

One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy.

If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.

A successful coach is one who is still coaching.

Greatness is defined by someone who is not simply awesome and wonderful in the sport they compete in but goes beyond that and is great in whatever they do off the track or off the court.

Make yourself an example, achieve it, but don't hurt anyone on the way up. I don't think I did that.

Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.

No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it's what his players know that counts.

A player who makes a team great is better than a great player.

Once I'm at the arena with the guys in the dressing room, and in the bus, and on the plane, I'm a player. And I sit in the back with the players and I play cards and try to take their money.

And I coached against Mike when he was an assistant with the Bears and they won that football game.

If you played the game the right way, played the game for the team, good things would happen

Sometimes, it's good to have a tremendous star, because everyone understands he has to get the ball.

Developing better people should be the number one goal for any coach when dealing with kids. In trying to develop better people, we are going to develop more and better pros.

Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I've been blessed.

Decisions are more apt to be accepted when you've listened to suggestions first. I wanted them to see the reason behind what I asked of them, not to do things just because I said so.

All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.

If you want a thing done - go. If not - send.

I feel, first of all, very privileged that these people think enough of me that they made me commissioner. And it's almost like, as Yogi Berra said, 'deja vu all over again.'

I don't like celebrity quarterbacks. We don't need those. We need battlefield commanders.

Running for office is the least aerobic of the socially interactive sports.

One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach.

So for us any gain we had in election, one vote that we got, was a win.

Let them police themselves, and then it goes another step past them to my coaches and there a coach that is responsible for a different area and different category on the field.

It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional.