Al Lopez Quotes

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.

Learning on the job as England captain is hard.

To say that the captain makes the team lose or win is not correct.

I know that it is a huge responsibility to be the captain, the No. 10, but I like it. I like the responsibility, the pressure, and I like playing football.

When you're in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There's also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.

Anytime you're playing with a team that's losing, the main guy is going to take a lot of the heat.

Managers don't play. We the players play.

I never knew a manager that didn't have pressure.

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.

I don't like to compare players or talk about having to carry the weight of the team.

When you become the manager of a leading club, there are so many situations you have to cope with. You have to deal with the people in charge of the club, the players, the media, the expectation... you have to deal with the whole environment around the club, and that is something you can find difficult.

I realize the responsibility of being a starting point guard.

I have to put my team in a good situation.

It's hard to be a leader right away, but playing quarterback, you have to.

It is one thing being scrutinised for playing a bad shot as a batsman or bowling a bad spell as a bowler, but the captaincy adds an extra dimension. The criticism is slightly harder to take.

A captain has to be able to look a player in the eye before he starts his run-up or goes out to bat.

You know, I have a responsibility to my team that if I'm going to be on the floor, then I have to make a difference.

You know, I think when you coach or you manage, you make decisions, and there's some that are really, really tough.

Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.

In the IPL, you are often single-handedly responsible for the fortunes of your team. It makes you more responsible as a player.

I like my players to be married and in debt. That's the way you motivate them.

If I'm a leader, I have a mission.

I think leadership is more than just being able to cross the t's and dot the i's. It's about character and integrity and work ethic.

Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone.

In any leadership position, you're always going to be disappointing somebody.