Myron Rolle Quotes

It's like everything in football - and life. You need to look, you need to think, you need to move, you need to find space, you need to help others. It's very simple in the end.

It's not enough just being a good passer of the ball.

I would say my strengths are vision and strategy.

Sometimes my passes don't find people, but I do try and create.

Leadership is having a compelling vision, a comprehensive plan, relentless implementation, and talented people working together.

I want the ball in my hands, throwing the ball, making decisions.

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.'

You are not always going to be able to knock it and run. You are going to have to use the other foot, mix things up, use the brain.

A big side of football is reacting to what happens.

You can't say, 'You're a scorer, you score. You rebound, you rebound.' Basketball is more than that. Basketball is knowing the next step, knowing the next play, knowing how to make things happen.

If you're asked something on a movie set and you say 'I don't know,' you lose confidence in every department. What you need to say is 'I'll have that for you in five minutes.'

If I'm in my position at a company, I may not have the knowledge of the C.E.O., I may not know what's possible, or I may not have the creativity, but if I can identify a problem, that's a valuable thing.

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

Well, the first quality of being a good leader is you have to be able to follow. See, a good leader can't just be the leader all the time, I have to be able to follow.

I just go into a game and try to look at the situation and what needs to be done. I try to execute.

Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.

For me football is more about making the right pass at the right time.

Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation.

I'm fascinated with films that deal with strategy because there's a right way and a wrong way to get the job done.

I'm a quarterback. I don't need to score the touchdown. I just need to spot the pass.

I think that business leaders today have to be more rounded than they used to be, they have to be completely multi-functional and fast-moving.

I take improv classes. Improv is something I can use in any aspect of life.

My thing is to execute the given play, execute the game plan to the best of my ability. If the option is for me to make a play when I have to, I will. Or I'll put myself in the best situation to do so.

The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.

The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.