Nick Nurse Quotes

I have been doing this for a long, and it is the players who learn who you need to work with. You have to coach them to think and understand the game. If they cannot, then you have to tell them, 'You have to do this anyway,' but the best thing to do is say, 'Listen, if he is doing this, then maybe you have to do that.'

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.

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

Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.

A leader's job is not to do the work for others, it's to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done, and to succeed beyond what they thought possible.

Many times, my role was to work as a link between the coaches and the players; it was to be a leader. That was something natural for me.

You have to lead by example. You have to be the calmest person in the room. You have to be very open. I think the qualities of a director are to enable and to find the best in everybody.

I have to put my team in a good situation.

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

Believe me, you need good people if you want to make good players.

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing.

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.

The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine.

I'm not comparing myself with anyone, but I am very confident about my captaincy, as I have already led India and in the IPL also. I have confidence I can bring out each player's ability fully and also give them a lot of confidence... I would like to stick to what I know best and what I have confidence in.

What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it's like a coach-player relationship.

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.

Leadership requires a blend of strategy, persuasion, inspiration and motivation. It is based on respect more than fear.

You have to have great players and great coaches working with you.

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

I was a coach, and I put a lot of education and experience into coaching.

Coaching is very complex: it's like a puzzle, and many things need to come together to make it work.

Leadership is an individual sport, one that has to be fine-tuned to each of the people that reports to you. Leaders also need to provide the direction, energy, encouragement and inspiration for each person who reports directly to the leader as well as for the overall organization.