Leadership lessons & quotes

 Source: https://briandoddonleadership.com/2020/11/03/40-leadership-lessons-and-quotes-from-some-of-college-footballs-greatest-leaders/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BrianDoddOnLeadership+%28Brian+Dodd+On+Leadership%29

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• Elite Players Do Small Things Well – “You want to make an elite player better.  It’s the small things, not the big things.” – Ohio State d-line coach Larry Johnson
• At The End Of The Day It’s About Preparation And Execution
• Focus On The Positives – “You’ve got to focus on your positives… Another thing is it comes down to people…
• The Process
• Play To Your Strengths
• Reinforce Positives.  Correct Negatives. – “You do your best to prepare them from a knowledge and experience standpoint…  They have to go through the process and make some mistakes.  They’ll do some things right.  Reinforce the positives.  Correct the negatives and hopefully they’re improve with this knowledge and experience.” – Saban
• “Resiliency is all about getting back to normal when something good or bad happens.  Young guys have a harder time doing that, that comes with maturity.” – Saban
• For Leaders To Succeed They Must Be In Friendly Systems
• “That’s the art of coaching right now.  They have to feel loved.  They have to feel positive but at the same time have that edge to them, the uncomfortable feeling they’re going to fight and work really, really hard.” – Ryan Day
• Love And Toughness – “Everyday you wake up and say ‘How can I make our team tough’ and still give them the love they want.” – Day
• Confidence – “You get a massive amount of confidence when your coach believes you in to implement your ideas into the offense.  But also there’s no excuses.  It’s on me.”- LSU quarterback Joe Burrow
• “Have fun.  Enjoy the journey.  And that’s one thing I didn’t do always.  I going to make sure I enjoy this journey.” – Mack Brown
• Trust And Credibility – “He told me he was going to make upgrades to the facilities and two months later he came through with his promise.” – Dorn
• Enhance/Focus on what is working
• Respect – “There’s a rivalry but you also have to respect the game of football.  We are kicking off the 150th year of college football on the biggest stage you can have.” – Florida coach Dan Mullen