Wrist-spinners are mostly attacking, and when your captain is so attacking you get freedom to attack more.
I wasn’t thrilled about ‘The Sound Of Music’ – not the movie itself but my role in it. Captain Von Trapp was a bore, and they tried to help by giving it a bit more cynicism, but it wasn’t my favourite role. I enjoyed the music, and I loved Julie Andrews.
I’m not trying to steal the show. I tend to shy away from – I don’t want to say the spotlight – how about responsibility? It’s just very daunting. These movies are very intimidating. ‘Captain America.’ This is the stuff I struggle with.
If you are captain of a great team like Paris St-Germain there are lots of players like Zlatan, players who are known by everybody. So to be captain of that team gives you respect and, in football, respect is very important.
With the second ‘Captain America,’ we really pushed the envelope in terms of what this guy is capable of, which I was excited to see. Because in the first ‘Captain America,’ he’s just strong. In ‘Avengers,’ it was still, in my opinion, a little bit ‘punch, punch, kick, kick.’
Bill Macy is the most incredible, humble, and hungry human being, and that is the captain of our ship. He is phenomenal. We still laugh together, and we still talk and text and check on each other.
I had to stop being a student idiot and become more sensible and organised and that definitely improved my batting. I also reacted far more quickly to situations in Test cricket because I’d been a county captain. It made a huge difference.
I’ve been the captain of a Premier League club, and I’ve coached some of the best players in the world.
Harry Kane shows every season his importance. You can’t say anything else but the fact that he’s such an important player, a captain, a leader and a player who is pushing all the time, pushing the team to get higher.
As a batting captain, you do have to earn bowlers’ trust, especially when it comes to fields.
I’d like to think that every captain around the world has a vision of how they want their teams to play and most of them are allowed to take their teams forward in their own way.
Dhoni is a big player. He’s achieved a lot as a player and as a captain.
When I first came into the side as captain, I was accused of being quite conservative, quite negative, and just doing what Andrew Strauss did.
I was treated like a state enemy after throwing the captain’s armband. Things went a lot further than I thought. I am the only one that paid a price as I’m no longer part of the national team. I sacrificed myself so that the team won’t be booed anymore and players won’t be cursed.
When you step out of the team environment you think, ‘Wow, I’m England captain and we’ve just won the Ashes.’
I’ve always found when I was captain when other people were doing the talking for me, I didn’t need to say as much, and when I did say one or two things, people tended to listen all the more.
And it was where I learned how to play tennis and eventually became captain of the tennis team at the school and was on the Junior Davis Cup in New York City.
You have one captain but, for me, it should be everyone who says something and help each other, then you can be a great team.
The captain thing was really an honor, and it was really flattering for me. It was really something that I didn’t expect, and I would say that was the highlight of my career so far, being elected captain by my peers.
I always kind of struggled a little bit with being captain sometimes, because sometimes you feel like you have to be someone that you’re not.
Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain’s ready room died it was always a sad moment.
I think a captain is someone who captains on the cricket field but, most of the leadership that happens is off the cricket field. It’s very easy to captain people on the cricket field, but if you can start leading them off the cricket field, and show them that trust, what you have in them.
I decided to make ‘Captain America’ because I realized I wasn’t doing the film because it terrified me. You can’t make decisions based on fear.
My biggest dream since I was a kid was to be the woman sneaking on the pirate ship dressed like a man, who was this great sword fighter, and the captain fell in love with her.
I think, at the end of the day, filmmaking is a team, but eventually there’s got to be a captain.
Relief isn’t quite the right word but there’s satisfaction at a job well done and I’m proud to say that I’m an Ashes-winning captain. Without taking it too personally, it has a nice little ring to it.
Captain America is an interesting character because it makes you ask those questions in yourself as a writer. What do we want as a nation, what do we mean as a nation, what is our role in the world as a nation? What are our strengths and weaknesses as a country?
What I find interesting about Captain Action is that he is more an adventurer and spy than he is a soldier.
There’s the pressure of being a No. 1 on the call sheet, being a lead actor. There’s almost this feeling like being captain of the team. You want to put a bit of energy into actually setting a good example.
MS has always been a bowler’s captain.
Way back as a child playing football on the beach, you dream of being a player representing your national team on the big stage – and now I get to be the captain. It’s something money can’t buy.
You know what the lowest rated episode we ever had was? Where Captain Kirk kissed Uhuru – a white man kissing an African-American woman. All the stations in the American South – in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana – refused to air it. And so our ratings plummeted.
As captain you’re involved immensely. You get worked up, you get carried away. It slowly dies down once you’re a player. You realise you’ve to take the back seat.
I am very happy with it, it is a great honour to be the captain of your country.
I was a huge fan of the original ‘Star Trek,’ and I’d never even dreamed that I would someday be captain of a starship.
One of the important things as a captain or coach is knowing what’s going on around you, and knowing the right thing to say at the right time.
I spent 34 months on the battleship Alabama, South Dakota-class. I was a gun captain. First we went to Russia for about 11 months with the British convoys. Then we were up in Norway and Scandinavia.
It would be a great honor. I’d love to be the captain of the Montreal Canadiens.
I’ve been the captain at Ajax and once for the national team – it’s nice and makes you an important player.
I always liked the idea of leadership and being a captain.
My mother was the only girl in the family. One brother was District Attorney of Odessa or something; another was teaching classical languages; another was a captain of a battleship of the Black Navy; and still another was a chemist and icthyologist.
As a child, I had the opportunity to meet the captain onboard a British Airways flight. It was so exciting to see the cockpit and controls. I was in awe of the captain, and he stamped my log book, which I still have to this day.
I love ‘Captain America.’ I love those fight sequences, but I’ve seen them multiple times.
I want to captain England in more Tests than anyone else.
There will be goals to achieve along the way, but until I captain Liverpool, I will not be satisfied.
I was the guy who had been bouncing around the film industry for years, and I’d been lucky if five or 10 people would see my movies, so Captain Jack did a big flip for my career.
I want to be captain.
It is when your team is losing that the captain has to keep the players together. He has to fight for them.
Suddenly in the end when it’s over, you feel a big weight on your shoulders. That’s the role of the captain. Unfortunately, it’s sometimes like that in sport.
For me, if I’m completely honest, I’ve always loved playing Captain Hook, also because I’ve gotten a chance to play so many different variations of him, so I haven’t just been playing the same guy day in, day out.
The captain tag is something that players vote on, head coaches they give their title to. It requires a player that you think exemplifies leadership.
Among the fables that inspired the British Admiralty’s cartographic assignments to Captain James Cook in the 1770s and Captain George Vancouver in the 1790s was a 1640 account under the name of Bartholomew de Fonte that appeared in a journal with the delightful title ‘The Monthly Miscellany, or Memoirs for the Curious.’
When you’re the conscious captain in your kitchen, you’ll feel better mentally and physically.
This perception that a good captain is someone who beats his chest and roars like a lion and gives big Churchillian speeches, that’s just not what leadership is about for me.
When you are captain at the same time, that’s when it gets difficult and when your own game starts to decay because you have other worries and pressures.
My dad was actually a college boxer at L.S.U. and a good one, too. He was the captain of the boxing team.
When Captain America knocks at your door, you answer.
When I started my pathway, black players were often considered to be good wingers, good players, but not captain or management material. It has changed since then, which is pleasing, but we still have so far to go.
