Quotes About Leadership

Individuals score points, but teams win games.

A coach is someone who always makes you do what you don't want to do, so you can be who you've always wanted to be.

He was constantly on me about the job that I was to do and the responsibility that I had upon the campus. And how I must be able to carry myself because people were looking.

If you don't demand that your people maintain. High performances to remain on your team, Why should they be proud of the association?

Leadership is one of sports intangibles. Guys can score, guys can fight, guys can skate faster than anybody else. But not everybody can say, Follow me.

Never tell 'em how many lettermen you've got coming back. Tell 'em how many you lost.

As a manager, you always have a gun to your head. It's a question of whether there is a bullet in the barrel.

The way you motivate a football team is to eliminate the unmotivated ones.

My first act after being named head coach of the Bulls was to formulate a vision for the team. I had to take into account not only what I wanted to achieve, but how I was going to get there.

The trouble with most coaches is that they start with the assumption that everybody is a turd. And that ain't right.

An effective leader develops the ability to correctly identify the pertinent detail or details - incidentals in a market, industry or sport that might create an incremental advantage.

If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.

Don't tell me how rocky the sea is, just bring the ship in.

Let's win one for the Gipper.

For sure I would be a very emotional captain. A very hands-on captain.

Successful innovation is not a single breakthrough. It is not a sprint. It is not an event for the solo runner. Successful innovation is a team sport, it's a relay race.

If the guys on the bench were as good as the guys you have out there, they'd be out there in first place.

Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition.

Managers don't have as much leverage as they used to have. We can't really be the boss.

I was assistant in Edmonton with Wayne as captain, and Kevin Lowe was the other assistant.

But I just think as a captain, everybody's different.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

George [Steinbrenner] is a great guy, unless you have to work for him.

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!