Aaron Rodgers Quotes

I've had teammates I didn't get along with, who hasn't? I've never had a teammate call me a bad guy, while he was my teammate, and if he did when I was gone what kind of teammate was he anyway?

That's the number one thing for a guy for a new coach coming in. You've really got to buy into the system and believe it's going to work because, if you don't, it's going to cause conflict, and you're not always going to be on the same page as the other guys on the team or with the coach.

If the national coach lets decisions be made from outside, he's lost the team.

If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.

The biggest problem is when a player asks a captain why he is not playing but does not want an honest answer.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It's a lesson I've had to relearn quite a few times.

For me the relationship you have with the coach is very important.

You can be the best manager in the world, but if the players don't trust you, it will never work.

A quarterback has to trust the quarterback coach. And the quarterback coach has to trust him.

I think it makes the game much easier to play once you have a good cohesion off the court. I think that's big because you come into a locker room at the NBA level, there's so much emotion, so much pride in the locker room.

Respect is the most essential thing about captaincy. Respect between the captain and players is important. It is give and take.

LeBron is the best player in our league, but some people have a hard time playing with him.

That's how you get a performance - they put trust in you.

I think there's nothing that's not important. Everything you do - from how you connect with the guys in the locker room, to how you learn, to how you play on the field - everything's important; everything goes with the position.

A good leader must be fair.

That's ultimately the thing that sticks out to you most, that's most important to me, is that I have the respect of my teammates.

It's critical that the manager has the respect of players so he can make the moves that he feels is appropriate without having somebody go to the papers. They respect you. So you respect them back.

I think trust is primarily built through relationships, and it's important because it's the foundational currency that a leader has with his team or his followers.

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.

There's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you're not a true ally to the person who's in charge of all that.

A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.

As a captain, I think it's important that the players really know who you are and what you stand for, what your beliefs are, and to be consistent in those if things are going good or things are going bad.

The one thing that I know is that you win with good people.

I think the outside world can learn a lot about how to act by watching a major league clubhouse. I don't think you want to do everything the same, but there's a lot of things I think people could learn from.

If you're a coach, and you don't have trust with players, you've got no chance, and your credibility is zero. And that's why it's so important to tell them the truth. If you have something that you're upset about, tell them the truth. If they're doing something wrong, tell them the truth.