Terry Francona Quotes

I think management is about just that - managing people via man-to-man skills.

In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.

Sir Alex is so consistent with his management. He manages each person differently, but you know exactly where you are with him. You know exactly what is required.

Daniel Farke is so good, a man-manager - he is calm but he can shout if he thinks I'm not working.

I take the role of leadership as the most important job I have. Yes, it's the passes and all the different things you have to do, but it's leading and it's in the huddle and it's in the weight room and the meeting rooms. It's that role I think comes first.

The way that I prepare, the way that I play, the way that I like to speak to the lads or manage situations is the way that I do things.

Good captains know the strengths and weaknesses of their teams and make decisions accordingly.

T-Lue is as bright as they come. He's incredible at making adjustments, holding guys accountable, relating.

Sometimes a manager can only do so much, as in prepare a team, and then the team have to go out there and perform.

The main thing about being captain is keeping your own performance good, and then everything else should fall into place off the back of that.

But the art of management has not changed. The art of it is still 80 to 90 per cent man-management. It is just a matter of getting the best out of what you have got.

I have to put my team in a good situation.

I have really enjoyed the responsibility of leading the team and making the decisions out there.

I try to be positive. I speak to my players about how we have to play, respect the rules. What I have done is always be positive.

As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business.

The Leader will be a person with the management skills to coordinate the activities of the Team, and to assure that the Team remains faithful to the objectives of the incoming President.

Tim Lewis is great, he's a great coordinator.

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.

A good director has to be a captain - he has to work with a lot of people every day.

If the national coach lets decisions be made from outside, he's lost the team.

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

You can lead a team in a lot of different ways. It can be talking to somebody who is down or, during the course of a game, looking to penetrate and then dropping the ball off to someone else for an easy bucket.

I feel that a great coach is one that has a vision, sets a plan in place, has the right people in place to execute that plan and then accepts the responsibility if that plan is not carried out.

I have three tools at my disposal - my whistle, my body language and my talk. It is a question of how I marry them up to try to get the players around to my way of thinking.

A good leader should focus on making sure everyone is being given the tools to do their job, not just expecting - poof! - that they're going to produce great work.