Brendan Rodgers Quotes

I have really enjoyed the responsibility of leading the team and making the decisions out there.

I hold head coaches accountable.

It is important to have leadership groups, but at the end of the day I need to be taking the call because I'm responsible for the team and I should know exactly what I'm doing and I believe in that.

Gotta watch out for directors.

Let them police themselves, and then it goes another step past them to my coaches and there a coach that is responsible for a different area and different category on the field.

I realize that as the quarterback, you have to assume some sort of leadership role because you have to talk in the huddle on every play, and you're essentially giving out orders to the team. But in my mind, I have to prove myself on the field before I can start asserting a leadership role.

You always hear about delegation, but people make the mistake of delegating and not following up. I give authority, but I stay in touch. Otherwise it doesn't work.

Directors never give you anything.

I have always told my subordinates that when they commit any mistakes, the blame must be laid on the superior officers.

You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.

Time was when an incompetent Governor could not be permitted among men. He was, and had to be, by one method or the other, clutched up from his place at the helm of affairs, and hurled down into the hold, perhaps even overboard, if he could not really steer. And we call those ages barbarous, because they shuddered to see a Phantasm at the helm of their affairs

The man in charge must concern himself with details. If he does not consider them important, neither will his subordinates.

As a company commander you have absolute definitions: the mission, the people.

You have to build a team, but someone's got to lead, and someone's got to be unpopular at times.

You do hear a lot about 'player power,' but I'm one of those who believes the manager is there to take control, to be in charge.

I think an owner needs to be present. When an owner is not present that's when things tend to go awry.

When I'm in the huddle, it is my huddle, and I mean, that's how it needs to operate.

There is no other job in major sport like a cricket captain. It is a huge job.

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.

Being the main guy for three or four years, I understood what it took to be the leader.

My role is the same with or without the armband.

It's absolutely right that we scrutinise the leaders who after all are going to be in a position of great power.

Being a captain means a lot - it's not just about wearing the armband.

Being the captain is a great privilege and a responsibility to lead a great group with different cultures.

Me being young, I'm going to definitely mess up a lot more than I'm going to make the right play, but I want my teammates to be able to trust me and look at me as a veteran guard trying to run the team.