David Gower Quotes

You know, quarterbacks, I think greatness in quarterbacks is taking what you've got, whether it's a great team, a good team, or a struggling team and make them better.

There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.

Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.

I don't subscribe to, 'Here are the top ten tips to successful leadership,' or, 'How to learn leadership in ten minutes.' A leader is someone who gives positive energy to others which then results in a better change than would have happened. I think everyone is a leader.

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.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

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.

Well, the first quality of being a good leader is you have to be able to follow. See, a good leader can't just be the leader all the time, I have to be able to follow.

As a leader, these attributes - confidence, perseverance, work ethic and good sense - are all things I look for in people. I also try to lead by example and create an environment where good questions and good ideas can come from anyone.

I've always been a leader. Every team I've played on, I've led my way.

Good leadership is to know when to go, and you only succeed as a good leader if you've transported someone else in and the company gets stronger. Then you've succeeded as leader.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.

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.'

Leadership matters most, and optimism and unity comes from the leader.

To be a leader is to be awake and dissatisfied at all times. Leadership is action. Leadership is influence

Leadership in the field, and especially during the hurried organization of the urgently needed new units, must not depend on seniority, meaning age.

Leadership contains certain elements of good management, but it requires that you inspire, that you build durable trust. For an organization to be not just good but to win, leadership means evoking participation larger than the job description, commitment deeper than any job contract's wording.

A captain shouldn't be chosen on the amount of goals he's going to score.

My job as a coach is to make good decisions. It's not to go out there and block or tackle.

I learned how important it is to lead and be decisive and to, in a way, empower other people to do their best.

A good leader doesn't get stuck behind a desk.

Leadership is having a compelling vision, a comprehensive plan, relentless implementation, and talented people working together.

Good leaders, good team players, know how to make the most of everything.

I have been captain in the past and I know what it takes to gel a team and get it going.