Brian O'Driscoll Quotes

One of the important things as a captain or coach is knowing what's going on around you, and knowing the right thing to say at the right time.

Leadership is influence.

To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.

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

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision.

To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak - you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.

When you're leading, don't talk.

I like being a leader in real life.

I'm not really a management-type person. It doesn't suit my personality to be bossing people around.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss.... The leader works in the open, and the boss is covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives

Leadership and partnership go together.

Leaders don’t boss. Not if they’re any good. They persuade. America needs a whole lot more persuading and a lot less bossing.

There's two parts of leadership. You've got to be a good leader - you've got to be somebody that people want to emulate and care about the other people. But the other guys that you have have to accept their leadership. They have to respond to it. That's the chemistry that you never know how that is going to happen.

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

I am not a dictator; I am a communicator.

I have a lot of power. Here, I can decide: training at six in the morning! Training 11 in the night! But my style is not to impose. I would like to convince the players of what they are doing. This takes more time.

Just because you're the coach, you don't automatically have the authority. You have to work the people. You have to gain the trust of the people.

I'm a leader.

Leaders are meant to lead from the front, but at the same time, they are also meant to listen to what their followers are saying.

Luckily, as a director I can just tell people what I need and I don't need to tell them how to get it.

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.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

I'm very much a leader in a lot of the work that I do or that I've done in my career.