If the team keeps changing then everything has to keep changing.

If you want to be a good strategist, you can never just go off a principle you read in a book. You need to adapt what you do to the situation; no rule of thumb is true all the time.

Having the support from everyone, the bosses, whoever within the team, definitely makes it much easier for me as a driver.

I adapt and I adjust to whatever environment I’m in.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 – and half the things he knows at 40 hadn’t been discovered when he was 20?

Since the team understands that the leader is de facto in charge, in that respect, a leader has nothing to prove. But in another respect, a leader has everything to prove: Every member of the team must develop the trust and confidence that their leader will exercise good judgment, remain calm, and make the right decisions when it matters most.

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.

Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.

I know what I do for my team and what my teammates expect of me on both ends of the floor.

I have a good team. It’s good to have a good team.

I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person. It’s a pretty good test.

Whoever the coach is, my job is to talk to him, understand him and be a better player under him and give my best.

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

There is something about building up a comradeship – that I still believe is the greatest of all feats – and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relationships, fracture teams and organizations, and create havoc in people’s lives.

I won’t have to do any major changes to continue my career a long way, hopefully. Just hopefully stay healthy and be able to help a team out as I go through and still play at a pretty high level.

When individual members of the team are highly disciplined, they can be trusted and, therefore, allowed to operate with very little oversight.

Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

The more players I have, the more difficult choices there are for me, but the better it is for LFC.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

There’s been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that’s simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we’ve won when I score 10.

Over the years, all my coaches and my teammates have contributed a lot to shape my career. I can never forget their contribution and help.

When the players go home, I can’t tell them what to do, so you need to create an atmosphere of trust. I don’t want to think, ‚What are they doing now? Do I need to call them?‘

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do – take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Yeah, I wasn’t chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn’t planned by anyone.

I don’t want a brat on my team.

But I’m pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

It’s nice when little teams win.

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.

You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don’t believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can’t possibly foresee now.

The biggest issue is muscle pliability. That’s what I think the biggest secret to me is. What is muscle pliability? Muscle pliability is keeping your muscles long and soft.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

From a young age, I learned to focus on the things I was good at and delegate to others what I was not good at. That’s how Virgin is run. Fantastic people throughout the Virgin Group run our businesses, allowing me to think creatively and strategically.

When I was 5, some financial things happened, and I moved seven times in a year. We moved from apartment to apartment, sometimes living with friends. My mom would always say, ‚Don’t get comfortable, because we may not be here long.‘

If I’m going to get you to do stuff, I need to lead you. I can’t just order you to do it.

The most genius thing about the way I create is to create with other geniuses.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

I’ve been so blessed to play for the greatest coach at a time when our organization has done incredible things. I’ve played with the best teammates. Playing for Mr. Kraft and what his influence on the team has been.

Once you get on the playing field it’s not about whether you’re liked or not liked. All that matters is to play at a high level and do whatever it takes to help your team win. That’s what it’s about.

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

In business, if you realize you’ve made a bad decision, you change it.

You look at another team’s style and how they do it, and you just want to understand how they’re doing it and see if you can learn something and maybe implement it into what your team does.

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

On this team, we’re all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

My game is really played above time. I don’t say that like I’m saying I’m ahead of my time. I’m saying, like, if I’m on the court and I throw a pass, the ball that I’ve thrown will lead my teammate right where he needs to go, before he even knows that that’s the right place to go to.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.