AB de Villiers Quotes

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

I was taking hitting clinics every chance I got. I really worked on it. It was just fun to be given that invitation from the director to make the baseball as good as we can.

We are not trying to reinvent the wheel. Sometimes it goes well, sometimes you have your off days. We have a way of going about things. Basically we are positive people trying to improve players and teams.

My job is to work hard, together with my players, to improve.

If you can make the players better, that's what I'm about.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

Sam is there, Sam has been playing well, he has been doing great in camp.

When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.

When we make progress and get better at something, it is inherently motivating. In order for people to make progress, they have to get feedback and information on how they're doing.

When you have a year of experience and also the experience of playing in the playoffs, it just makes a world of difference.

I think all you can worry is that you make the team the very best they can be.

Success is to improve, grow up, build one team with personality, and then I want to win.

If someone works with me, I try to take them to the next level.

In football, there's always room for improvement.

The more you do, the more you think, the better you get.

It's easy on teams when you have got superstars. I mean, they're really good. And you give them the ball, and you say, 'Make a play.'

Every time you step onto the field, you have to set goals. My goals are to either score a goal, to have an assist, or to play well.

People say I'm a natural leader, but I just go out there and do my job and do whatever it takes to win; that's what comes with being a leader, those are the sort of things I've done as I've tried to grow into a leader and I'm just going to continue to do them.

I hope to become a great player.

My ambition is to work to improve my players.

Every collaboration helps you grow.

When you're younger, it's about, 'How can I get better? How can I become the player that I want to be?' As you get older, it's, 'How can this football team improve?' While all along getting better along the way.

You've got to coach worrying about your entire team: whether that gets you a championship or whether that gets you fired. I think it allows you to coach free. You're coaching with freedom because you know you're doing what you think is right.

How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win.