Quotes About Guidance

I get a lot of letters from people saying, 'I want to follow in your footsteps,' and I don't know how to tell people how to follow in my footsteps, because I can't give them the opportunities that I had.

I've been through a lot and played for a long time, so I can understand what others will go through. That's why I want to help them out. There are a lot of players who go to Belgium, for example, and have had terrible experiences. I know players, and they have come to me.

I think a lot of people, when the word leadership is used, they think of it as quite forceful and quite a rigid thing. I think people think I am like that. But people can lead in different ways.

I believe in empowering people rather than advising them and forcing them in a direction which I feel is right.

Foresight has been a distinguishing characteristic of all truly great political, religious, and social betterment leaders.

Every movie, I find myself adrift at the beginning of the movie, and then I find my way through the dark forest.

I wasn't a great student. My brother is 18 months older than me, so he sort of forged the way for me at school.

As a former cricketer you want to give something back.

Fortunately, I had some very good coaches.

Teaching is a respectful job. Teachers lay the foundation for society.

It helps to have founded and run a company if you're going to help somebody run a company who is a founder.

I've tried to stay out of the frame more as a director.

Being the face of the franchise, everyone is watching you. You have to be able to lead other men. It's a lot of responsibility.

I worked under Francis Schmidt, and he was the biggest influence on my coaching career.

My dad was my manager when I was young, but as a professional, Frank Rijkaard.

Frank Rijkaard put me in the first team when I was 17 and gave me every week the chance to play with the first team and start my way in football. I was so young and my dreams came true so quickly thanks to Rijkaard.

I try very hard to live my life in an exemplary way, which is, you know, 'Shine bright like Frankie.'

When you tell other people to do stuff they don't know how to do, they tend to freak out.

I had two wonderful teachers: Sanford Melsner and Fred Kareman.

Whether you empower one person or the free world, that is leadership.

I'm lucky in that I have close friends and family and my agent to advise me.

Lead from the front.

My parents were always pretty free with me. They were of the school of thought that if you really cramp down on someone and tell them not to do all these things, it's gonna become like forbidden fruit.

Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.