The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Great leadership usually starts with a willing heart,
a positive attitude, and a desire to make a difference. — Mac Anderson
Leadership is demonstrated at the moment of need.
You learn to be a leader by acting, by doing — Carlos Ghosn
Leadership is the sum of those qualities of intellect, human understanding, and moral character that enables a person to inspire and control a group of people successfully. — John A. Lejeune
The quarterback is an extension of the coach and has a certain type of swagger mentality, on and off the field. — Cam Newton
At least 80 percent of the success of the football team is determined by the fight and spirit that they put into their play. — George Halas
Short Football Leadership Quotes
Great leadership is by definition relentlessly developmental. — Bill Hybels
Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes. — Margaret J. Wheatley
Coaches win practices, players win games — Pete Carril
Championships and great seasons are won in locker rooms. — Tom Izzo
Football is a game about feelings and intelligence. — Jose Mourinho
If your leadership is ample, you will be a great example. — Daniel Evans
Football doesn't build character, it reveals character. — Marv Levy
You're never too young to lead. — Kofi Annan
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. — John F. Kennedy
There can be no leadership when there is no team. — Jocko Willink
Football Leadership Image Quotes
A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.
Leadership Quotes
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. — Warren G. Bennis
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. — Colin Powell
The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly. — Jim Rohn
Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could. — Steve Jobs
It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership. — Nelson Mandela
Be a leader by example. Be confident and humble. Love the unloved.
The most important ingredient of leadership is character. Most of the proficiencies can be learned, but what's inside you is something that's difficult to change. — Jesse Robredo
Leadership is all about people. It is not about organizations. It is not about plans. It is not about strategies. It is all about people-motivating people to get the job done. You have to be people-centered. — Colin Powell
You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. — Harry S. Truman
Sports Leadership Quotes
The four Cs of making dreams come true: Curiosity, Courage, Consistency, Confidence. — Walt Disney
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. — Stevie Wonder
I have often been asked whether I am a women or an athlete. The question is absurd. Men are not asked that. I am an athlete. I am a women. — Billie Jean King
Leadership is not about being in charge. Leadership is about taking care of those in your charge.
There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out. — Pat Riley
If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out. — Chuck Noll
There is no mat space for malcontents or dissenters. One must neither celebrate insanely when he wins, nor sulk when he loses. He accepts victory professionally, humbly; he hates defeat, but makes no poor display of it. — Dan Gable
Leadership is an action, not a position.
The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb. — Knute Rockne
The most important thing in coaching is communication. It's not what you say as much as what they absorb. — Red Auerbach
Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It's dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you great. — Billie Jean King
What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it. — Dean Smith
Football Team Quotes
You can change your wife, your politics, your religion, but never, never can you change your favourite football team. — Eric Cantona
A team is not made up of isolated individuals. Always stay in the game. Don't be passive. Football is a team game. No one plays alone. Success depends on your whole team being a single unit. — Pele
Hungry is a word that I've been analyzing here of late. It's not hunger that drives me, it's not hunger that needs to drive our football team. Hunger and thirst are things that can be quenched. We have to be a driven group, we have to seek greatness. — Mike Tomlin
Leadership simply begins with the courage to be yourself. So everyone else can be, too.
When you start supporting a football club, you don't support it because of the trophies, or a player, or history, you support it because you found yourself somewhere there; found a place where you belong. — Dennis Bergkamp
A football team is a like a beautiful woman, when you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful — Arsene Wenger
I've got a Championship game to play and I'm excited about the opportunity of my damn strong football team to play in it. — Les Miles
It's time for the New England Patriots to move on and that's what our job is. And as I said, our goal is the same: to have a winning football team, to be a pillar in the community. That's what our direction is; that's what we're going to do. — Bill Belichick
The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven. — Knute Rockne
I'm the head coach at LSU. I will be the head coach at LSU. I have no interest in talking to anybody else. I got a championship game to play, and I'm excited for the opportunity of my damn strong football team to play in it. Please ask me after. I'm busy. Thank you very much. Have a great day! — Les Miles
It's never an upset if the so-called underdog has all along considered itself the better team. — Woody Hayes
Football Coach Quotes
I'm a football coach. I'm not a doctor ... They don't call plays, I don't do surgeries. We have a great deal here. — Bill Belichick
Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise. — Lou Holtz
True loyalty is that quality of service that grows under adversity and expands in defeat. Any street urchin can shout applause in victory, but it takes character to stand fast in defeat. One is noise - the other, loyalty. — Fielding H. Yost
There's no substitute for hard work and effort beyond the call of duty. That is what strengthens the soul and ennobles one's character. — Walter Camp
It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters. — Bear Bryant
I am who I am. In the end, I feel that what I'm accountable for is doing a good job as a football coach. — Bill Belichick
A good football coach needs a patient wife, a loyal dog and a great quarterback - but not necessarily in that order. — Bud Grant
You fail all the time, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else. — Bum Phillips
Alabama fans love Alabama football. Auburn fans love Auburn. — Pat Dye
They ask me what I'd like written about me when I'm gone. I hope they write I made Penn State a better place, not just that I was a good football coach. — Joe Paterno
Basketball Leadership Quotes
I can't make every decision for you. I don't have 14 timeouts. You guys got to get together and talk — Gregg Popovich
My goal is to win the next game one possession at a time. That's it. I don't have any other goals — Brad Stevens
A leader's job is to develop committed followers. Bad leaders destroy their followers' sense of commitment. — Dean Smith
If Kyle Korver blocks your shot there should be a penalty box you should go to! — Jeff Van Gundy
I didn't get into teaching and coaching for the number of wins or the money. It was a passion for trying to help young people — Bo Ryan
If you don't feel you have something to prove every day, you'll never improve — Billy Donovan
The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment. — William Arthur Ward
I always mean what I say, but I don't always say what I'm thinking. — Dean Smith
Good Leadership Quotes
He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. — Aristotle
A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops. — John J. Pershing
You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place for your presence. And the good that is in you must be spread to others. — Gordon B. Hinckley
Good generals select intelligent officers, thoughtful advisors, and brave subordinates. They oversee their troops like a fierce tiger with wings. — Zhuge Liang
He who neither drinks, nor smokes, nor dances, he who preaches & even occasionally practice piety, temperance and celibacy, is generally a saint, or a mahatma or more likely a humbug but he certainly won't make a leader or for that matter a good soldier — Sam Manekshaw
The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders and continually develops them. — John C. Maxwell
If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees. — Ingvar Kamprad
Football Manager Quotes
I'm really a normal football manager. — Jurgen Klopp
I've told him to cut off his ponytail. I think it makes him less aerodynamic. — Arsene Wenger
At a football club, there's a holy trinity - the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don't come into it. They are only there to sign the checks. — Bill Shankly
Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business, football manager or prime minister, but rather: bus driver. — Jonathan Sacks
That's great, tell him he's Pele and get him back on. — John Lambie
I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a manager would be my first choice. — Wayne Rooney
It is like having a blanket that is too small for the bed, you pull the blanket up to keep your chest warm, and your feet stick out. I cannot buy a bigger blanket because the supermarket is closed. But the blanket I have is made of cashmere. So it's good. — Jose Mourinho
Football is made up of all kinds of conflict. In a dressing room, between players, between us and the manager, between us and loads of people who don't seem to matter. It's constant and harsh sometimes. — Wayne Rooney
I'm ex-player, ex-technical director, ex-coach, ex-manager, ex-honorary president. A nice list that once again shows that everything comes to an end. — Sayings
I don't like champagne, I don't smoke cigars, I haven't any real jewellery at all, apart from the 8 pieces of gold I picked up at Anfield, the most important relationship at a football club is not between the manager and the chairman, but the players and the fans. — John Toshack
Football Season Quotes
Hey fellas! This is what you work all off season for. This is why you lift all them weights! This is why you do all that! — Bill Parcells
I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That's when I knew I had some athletic ability. — LeBron James
Alan Shearer has done very well for us, considering his age. We have introduced some movement into his game because he has got two good legs now. Last season he played with one leg. — Bobby Robson
There's two times of year for me: Football season, and waiting for football season. — Darius Rucker
Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl. — Bill Peterson
Pro football is a game; not a war. It's for win or lose, not life or death... but say that in the summer, for winter brings the playoffs, and a season is at stake. — John Facenda
I've been consistent in patches this season. — Theo Walcott
In international football you have 10 games a season, with players from different clubs. There's no time for proper coaching; they're just recovering from playing on the Saturday. — Graham Taylor
Football season: The only time of the year when a man can walk down the street with a blond on one arm and a blanket on the other without encountering raised eyebrows. — Bennett Cerf
I always wanted everyone to like me. I wanted the city of Pittsburgh to be proud of me. But my first few seasons, I could to count the number of people on my bandwagon on one finger. — Terry Bradshaw
It's awfully important to win with humility. It's also important to lose. I hate to lose worse than anyone, but if you never lose you won't know how to act. If you lose with humility, then you can come back. — Bear Bryant
My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team. — Don Shula
A good leader gets people to follow him because they want to, not because he makes them. — Tony Dungy
I want to see a player on the football field. I want to see what kind of teammate they are, what kind of leadership qualities they have. I want to see how aggressive they are, how much fun they have playing the game. — Roy Clark
I want to see a player on the football field. I want to see what kind of teammate they are, what kind of leadership qualities they have. I want to see how aggressive they are, how much fun they have playing the game. — Roy Clarke
Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal. — Don Francis
Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency. — Junior Seau
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you. — Bear Bryant
We have no leadership. They rule by herd. Nobody is in charge. It reminds me of a bunch of cows. — Bud Grant
I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. Hey, it made me a better leader: you have to take a lot of people's needs into account; you have to look down the road. Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy. — Dee Dee Myers
I need to treat everybody fairly, but fair doesn't always mean equal. — Tony Dungy
Leadership must be likeable, affable, cordial, and above all emotional. The fashion of authoritarian leadership is gone. Football is about life. You can't be angry all day. — Vicente del Bosque
The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders. — Vince Lombardi
What's important is not the uniform or the number, and it's not what team you play for or whether anyone else sees your value; it's who you are on the inside. And when you're in Christ, that's never going to change. — Tony Dungy
And as a football coach in the National Football League, I know for sure that it's going to end someday. — Tony Dungy
The best solution for falling just short of the goal is to focus on the fundamentals but perform them better. — Tony Dungy
I needed to do my current job well, keep preparing, and wait on God's timing. I needed to trust His leadership rather than try to force an outcome I wanted. — Tony Dungy
God's definition of success is really one of the significant differences our lives can make in the lives of others. — Tony Dungy
A good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time. — Bear Bryant
People who are in it for their own good are individualists. They don't share the same heartbeat that makes a team so great. A great unit, whether it be football or any organization, shares the same heartbeat. — Bear Bryant
That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you. — Bear Bryant
My prototypical quarterback is a competitive guy that's a winner, somebody that has great athletic instincts, somebody who is very accurate throwing the football, a quick-minded guy who can think fast on his feet and can make decisions quickly, someone who has leadership ability, an understanding of timing and can make really good decisions. — Jim Harbaugh
Pain prompts us to change behavior that is destructive to ourselves or to others. Pain can be a highly effective instructor. — Tony Dungy
What's important is not the accolades and memories of success but the way you respond when opportunities are denied. — Tony Dungy
Be aware of "yes" men. Generally, they are losers. Surround yourself with winners. Never forget - people win. — Bear Bryant
Sacrifice. Work. Self-discipline. I teach these things, and my boys don't forget them when they leave. — Bear Bryant
Once a player joins our team, our priority is to teach him, not worry about the player we didn't select. — Tony Dungy
We spent our whole married life in the ultra-competitive world of professional football, Lauren and I had always tried to view it through God's eyes. As much fun as it was to be winning, we tried not to get caught up in it. We knew that our family life and our faith walk were more important. — Tony Dungy
And if God has given you a lot of ability, I believe you should be held to a higher level of expectation. — Tony Dungy
We believed it was not our formations that made us good, but rather how we played. — Tony Dungy
We wanted guys who had been productive in college, and we made it a point to pick performance over potential. — Tony Dungy
No athletic director holds office longer than two losing football coaches. — Robert Zuppke
First, there is no typical grief cycle, and second, it's not something I went through. I'm still grieving. — Tony Dungy
God allows us to feel pain for a reason: to protect us. — Tony Dungy
As a global company, ATT is proud to have its name associated with this great university and some of the most exciting college football in the country. We appreciate our strong working relationship with Texas Tech, and we are grateful for the university's leadership to make the Jones ATT Stadium name a reality. — David George
They were unwillingly to give 100 percent if they didn't personally think it was important. What you don't understand is the champions know it's all important. — Tony Dungy
At some point in life's journey, professionally and personally, we have to be able to trust our preparation. — Tony Dungy
But I noted with real satisfaction how well ex-footballers seemed to have leadership qualifications . . . I believe that football, perhaps more than any other sport, tends to instill in men the feeling that victory comes through hard - almost slavish - work, team play, self-confidence, and an enthusiasm that amounts to dedication. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Football is definitely a team sport. Without one person doing the right thing, the whole team falls. At Navy and in lacrosse, the off-the-field leadership comes into play, you know so if one person is slacking off, weve got everyone making sure everyone is pulling their own weight. Its like that in football too. — Sean Price
We will use some kind of option and we will throw the football. I hope it will be at our people. — Lou Holtz
Until Sammy Baugh - pro football in Texas was a one-paragraph story on the third page of the Monday sports section. — Dan Jenkins
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