As a captain of industry, I would prefer more tax breaks to help people buy houses, but as a citizen, I realize someone has to pay.
‘Captain Marvel,’ whereby the steel trap is challenged, where the hero is a heroine, where the most powerful person who has the welfare of the future of the human race is a woman. What else can it be? Because that was the role of my mother when I was a kid.
My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I was playing I was a steamboat captain. She had no sense of the dignity of command.
I’d like to see myself as captain, but it’s a long-term goal.
You don’t have to be captain to have an opinion.
For sure I would be a very emotional captain. A very hands-on captain.
When I was a kid at Middlesbrough, we had the best captain ever in Gareth Southgate who was absolutely brilliant.
In the 1958 World Cup final, Sweden scored against Brazil and Didi went to the back of the net and talked to all the players. And he was not the captain, but he behaved like one. Every player has to behave as if he was captain.
My brother was a captain in the Marine Corps and a very big hero in my life.
Just in a matter of eight months to win the U-19 World Cup as captain and then make the Test team is quite unreal.
I would really love to play a superhero. That is definitely up there on my list. Captain Marvel especially. That would be so cool.
I always thought that I played better when I was the captain. If you look at my record during the six years I was captain – except for a couple of series – I did very well.
I am happy to bowl wherever my captain wants me to bowl. If he tells me to bowl upfront and be aggressive with the new ball, I am happy to do that.
Before I was ‘the captain’ with the label – because essentially, that’s all it is – I was a player, and before that, I was a fan of the game, fan of the team.
The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.
As a captain, I don’t have long-term targets in my mind as it is better to go with short targets.
Well, my transition into being a captain was easy.
What Kirk wanted every evening was to go to bed with a beautiful woman. Our captain now is a man of infinitely more skill. A better man.
I haven’t yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student.
I have done nothing wrong as captain of the Delhi Krrish Smashers franchisee in the IBL.
The day you hear someone call me captain will be the day I buy a boat.
Nobody is a born captain. He learns with time.
My lord, I will tell you what the case was. I was coming up within a league of the Dutchman, and some of my men were making a mutiny about taking her, and my gunner told the people he could put the captain in a way to take the ship, and be safe.
I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.
Maybe it’s every kid’s dream to go into a pod and come out looking like Captain America. And you don’t even have to exercise or lift weights! It’s great!
Generally, though, becoming captain was never something I thought about. I’ve always pushed myself to be a leader and a winner through my performances, passion, ambition, will to win and unbending winning mentality.
When I first became captain the job was new and refreshing and didn’t affect my batting. I was still in the same mental pattern I had had for 10 years; batting came first and captaincy fitted in with that.
Anyway, I’ve never been captain in 16 years in the NHL. But that didn’t stop me being a leader in my own way.
I was once the captain of Akagi, and it is with heartfelt regret that I must now order that she be sunk.
What if the coach of Kosovo wants me as the captain? Of course, I am thinking about it then.
As a captain I think tactically I’ve been quite good.
As I get older, I think I’m going to continue to be a better player and a better captain.
I wish Mike Ruddock nothing but the very best in whatever he does in the future. I will always remember him as the guy who had the confidence to make me captain of Wales.
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.
I really wanted to be a captain of industry. I worked at Unilever as brand manager for Lynx after university. While I don’t regret leaving, I wish I still had a bit of power.
As far as I’m concerned, it’s just my mum getting it out there saying she wants her son to be England captain.
I went over before the British Open and played Valderrama thinking that I might make the team, might be a captain’s pick. I made the effort to go over there.
‘Captain America’ I love, and that would be great, but c’mon, a Frenchman doing ‘Captain America?’ They would burn my passport.
It’s not a successful captain that makes a successful team.
You start off slowly, getting ‘better and ‘better, getting that confidence in yourself. It brought that out of me which I had inside but, you know, didn’t want to express it – but as a captain you have to.
Actually, the year 2000 is our 25th anniversary of doing Captain & Tennille. I can’t believe it. It’s like, how is this possible?
I kept my speeches short as captain. I focused on the key points of the opposition of the day. As coach, I was never afraid to give long speeches to the players throughout our preparations. It was important they had all the information possible.
Selecting a strong team without giving the new captain appropriate time isn’t possible.
I was captain and should have set the example. I would lift a minimum of weights. Mine was natural physical strength. I always thought quickness and agility were much more important.
I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
If I have food in the house and I’m laying in bed, I go, ‘I bet that Captain Crunch is lonely in the cupboard.’
I don’t envisage I will be captain again, but for two England managers, Steve McClaren and Fabio Capello, I was their first choice and I’m proud of that.
I became captain after playing 17 years for India so probably I became captain by default because nobody else wanted it.
I would read fishing reports on the road and then it just occurred to me: I should go to sea school and get my captain’s license, see if I can get paid to be out here every day.
My dad does watch my work now. My parents watch everything I’m on. I think the first time they saw something was ‘Captain America,’ and he called me, and he was so elated.
When I was a player I used to feel that you are the captain of your own bowling, which I would like to try and inculcate, especially in the bowling group. That is important. All of them must believe that they are leaders.
Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day to pay me a visit in the midst of a deluge of rain.
The whole idea of Captain America was borne of a time 80-something years ago. That was a time of the Second World War, and it was an antifascist idea. You had this idea of it being a soldier-warrior. That was the construct for a hero.
I want to conquer the unknown. I really, really want to live on the water and captain my own boat. I have dreamed of going around the world on a boat.
Although I am not in the thick of things when it comes to T20 cricket, but as an ODI captain, I’d like to give more stability to the players.
Whether you’re a second lieutenant working with a captain and a lieutenant colonel, or a four-star general working with the Office Secretary of Defense and the White House, the decision makers have got to have ground truth. Otherwise, the decisions they make could be flawed – and that can be dangerous.
I think most people thought that because I am quite reserved and private, I wouldn’t make a good captain.
One of my theories is to be captain on the field and off the field, you need to totally enjoy each other’s company. I don’t like discussing cricket off the field.
The books I used to love as a kid, I used to read football books – and by that I mean soccer books – stories about boys in school who started to play football and then became the captain. I’d read them cover to cover. I just got lost in them.
What little success I may have won in life I attribute to the loyalty I had for a dear old friend who was my first steel master, whom you perhaps have never heard of: Captain Bill Jones.
I think the toughest part for me was when Herschelle said that he obviously looked up to his Captain, and he felt if his Captain could do it, then so could he, and that to me was when it really struck home.
I think there will be one overarching coach for Tests and one-day cricket. I think you need one person in control and in charge of that environment. Also it’s important for people to know I am not going to be playing a tracksuited role. The execution of strategy is over to the captain and coach as it always has been.
I don’t view myself as a team manager, but a team captain. I’m part of the team, but everybody else as well.
