You have to build a team, but someone's got to lead, and someone's got to be unpopular at times.
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You need a team. You need people to push you. You need opponents.
You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.
Being a leader requires being confident enough in your own decisions and those of your team to own them when they fail. The very best leaders take the blame but share the credit.
It takes a lot of people to make a winning team. Everybody's contribution is important.
A collection of strong-minded individuals who have learned how to dismiss mistakes, disappointments and problems in their personal life make up a strong team. If the majority of the team have that then, as a unit, you are almost impossible to beat.
You don't have to be popular with the players to be a good manager or coach.
Leadership is one of sports' intangibles. Guys can score, guys can fight, guys can skate faster than anybody else. But not everybody can say, 'Follow me.'
I don't want to be considered a leader based on what people think goes on in the clubhouse.
I think you sign up to win games, and compete, and go out there and lead a team no matter how you can do that.
You can lead a team in a lot of different ways. It can be talking to somebody who is down or, during the course of a game, looking to penetrate and then dropping the ball off to someone else for an easy bucket.
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