Quotes About Leadership

When things aren't going well, it's very easy to blame the coaching staff.

Our job as a coaching staff is to mentor, to discipline and to educate young people.

Serving as Chief of Staff would be an incredible honor.

Allowing staff to dictate frameworks and policy outcomes without appropriate checks by elected leaders has corrosive effects.

I get disappointed when players arrive and are not at peak condition. Ultimately that is the reflection of the set-up I run. Ultimately that is the reflection of me and my support staff.

I thought one of the best things I ever did in my career was getting my first staff together at OU... That's exciting to me. The opportunity to put it together and help it grow.

My staff are pretty protective, it drives me nuts. I like to just do my own thing, that's pretty well it.

I value my staff and I believe in hiring people who are smarter than myself.

I am all about teams. I think I have probably got a reasonably relaxed style as a senior leader, I am pretty demanding, I am known as tough, not a soft touch, but I try to be friendly and I want my staff to feel they can come up and chat to me.

It always starts with having great competitors on your team, in your front office, on your coaching staff.

I have a staff, but I still work insanely hard.

When a new coaching staff comes in, there are a lot of changes that happen with that.

The coaching staff expected us to show up on time, give it our all and leave nothing out there. By all means play hard but work harder. That was part of the Liverpool Way.

When every guy on the team and the coaching staff is telling you, 'shoot it, shoot it,' obviously I've always known I could shoot it, but it was more of a trying to get the guys involved and being that middle man.

I've got a great coaching staff behind me too and they deserve a lot of credit.

Luis Enrique and his coaching staff can do great things.

The NSC staff should not, as it has in the past, duplicate the work of military officers, diplomats or intelligence officers.

But when you have a coaching staff that draws the last play for you, you better go out there with the confidence.

When your team needs you to fall back or your coaching staff needs you to fall back, they're going to pull you back a little bit.

We ask players to communicate - offensive, defense, special teams. Our staff has to communicate that way also.

Own the stage, command the stage, and don't be afraid to be the best you can be.

There is no way I would ever want to be president for a second. It's much easier to make fun of them on the stage and get paid for it. With all the years of me lampooning the presidents in my act, I know I could never ever want that job.

Once you go from 10 people to 100, you already don't know who everyone is. So at that stage you might as well keep growing, to get the advantages of scale.

Of all the many leaders I have met in the course of my life, none made a deeper impression on me than Nelson Mandela. His courage, compassion, humility and wisdom were without parallel on the world stage, and he himself was an enduring source of inspiration.