You will always be judged as a Liverpool player but, as a captain, you will be judged on what you win, basically. If you’re doing well, and the team is winning everything, you become a very good captain.
When you think of Bolton you think of the likes of Kevin Davies. He is a captain who leads by example and his qualities got him an England cap.
The leadership qualities that you have to have to be a producer on a film is something I learned being a captain on the team.
I was captain of the pom-pom team, which was still dance, but we were athletes. We trained on the track and did workouts every single day after school.
It’s obvious that I’d like to keep the captain’s armband. The job gives me a great deal of enjoyment. Why should I then give it up by choice?
The first movie that made me cry was ‘Dead Poets Society.’ That one gets me. ‘O Captain! My Captain!’ That moment kills me.
I was the sports captain in school. I’ve done everything – from javelin to discus to basketball to judo.
The main reason I did ‘Captain America’ was because I wanted to get out of my own head and stop taking my work so seriously.
Having captained India for long, it is habitual to discuss with my mates and assess the bowling changes, the bowling changes, the field setting that the opposing captain would do.
In ‘Winter Soldier’ – in terms of character-based, ‘Winter Soldier’ was so specifically for us: everything in that movie was designed around that version of Captain America that we wanted to see, that we wanted to explore. Everything in that film, all of the stylistic choices just flow from that.
The mythos of superheroes is our mythos today. They are American myths. ‘Captain America,’ ‘Iron Man,’ ‘Hulk’ – these are the biggest movies in the world. But sometimes, superhero movies can be a little bit thin.
I’ve always maintained – a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
Obviously, you want to get big runs. But then, as a captain, you want to play on result-oriented wickets.
I very rarely saw Tom Kite around. I’ve talked to Tom about it. I don’t think Michael Jordan needed to be on the captain’s cart with Kite; he needed to be walking in the gallery, supporting them from outside the ropes.
I’m constantly aware of my responsibility; I don’t need the captain’s armband to feel that.
The experience of shooting a film is about the script, the captain of the ship who is the director, and the way they push their actors and teams to give their best. It’s not about the language and the region.
Henry Fonda’s son: That’s how everybody identified me until Easy Rider came along. Good old Captain America.
But I just think as a captain, everybody’s different.
When I first became captain of the Indian cricket team in 2000, many well-wishers and journalist friends gifted me the classic Mike Brearley book, ‘The Art of Captaincy.’ I mean no disrespect to the book or Mr, Brearley, who I admire a great deal, but books or team meetings don’t make you good captains.
Whether I’m captain or not, I always like to think that I lead by example anyway. I do the same things as I always do and try to help the group out.
As captain of India, the world was at my feet and then I did not find myself in the team. Not many captains would find themselves in that position.
If a youngster can come up to me and share his problems or share his experiences or share something that he does off cricket, that can obviously help you build a better relation with one-on-one, and that can help you captain him on the cricket field.
I am the captain of Madrid, and I will defend my team.
A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don’t know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge.
To be appointed as captain of the team of the ICC Champions Trophy 2017, which includes some of the finest and most attractive cricketers of this generation, is the perfect icing on the cake.
As a captain, you don’t have to worry about playing well, or recovering, or injury. As captain, you know the match is in the hands of the player, not you.
My heroes were always a combination of Captain Kirk and Mr Spock. You have to be ruled by logic, but if you’re only ruled by logic and you don’t touch your emotions, you will make the wrong instinctive call.
On the pitch, I have always had that responsibility to lead the team. But, of course, when you are captain, players, especially the young ones, they look at you more for the things you do on and off the pitch. But I have always been a very calm person.
I’ve always fantasized about being on TV. And I was. Then I fantasized about being in the movies. What could be better than captain of a space ship? I get to ride horses, shoot guns, have adventures.
My childhood was a happy one. I was captain of the school sports team and played cricket after class. I had five younger siblings and a large loving family that lived together. We are still very close.
I did a character called Captain Q for Nestle’s Quik. Those commercials were kind of funny.
My first trip as a captain against Pakistan in 2003 – we had never won there before, but then we won both the Test Matches and One-Days.
I know that it is a huge responsibility to be the captain, the No. 10, but I like it. I like the responsibility, the pressure, and I like playing football.
I’ve always enjoyed playing the shortest form of the game and I relish the opportunity to develop my leadership skills as England’s Twenty20 captain.
As a coach I need to organise preparations for the team and give informed input to captain and the team to strategise better, inclusive of every player.
I like to be the captain of my ship and be involved with everything from stage production, merch, art, and rollouts.
Likewise, I see no shame in writing Captain America or Wolverine.
Basically, if you like ‘Deadpool,’ you’ll love ‘Captain Underpants.’
A captain of the Navy ought to be a man of strong and well connected sense, with a tolerable good education, a gentleman, as well as a seaman both in theory and practice.
The traits I picked from my conversation with Captain Gopinath was his honesty. He was completely possessed at each stage by what he was doing. When he was in the army, he was possessed there. He was possessed when he started Udupi hotel or while doing agriculture. He is a perfectionist and he is very impatient.
We can’t take such unfair criticism. It would be difficult for me to continue as captain if this unhealthy trend of demoralising the team after a few bad performances continues.
When I was drafted to Smackdown, I was like, ‘Hell yes, I’m going to captain this ship.’ Then I was like, ‘Oh, wait, you’re losing your best friend and travel partner and the person you enjoy having matches with the absolute most.’ That’s Charlotte. We travel together, and she is my best friend.
I have been captain in the past and I know what it takes to gel a team and get it going.
Batman is pretty much a self-trained guy. I think it would be fun to do a character like Superman or Captain Marvel or maybe Green Lantern, somebody who’s got a completely different resource for fighting crime and fighting villains.
Playing as captain of Juve and the national team, with 500 games for Juve and 100 for the national team, it gives you a different serenity.
I was able to play for and captain my country.
As a player, when things are going against you, you look to the captain to inject some energy but I don’t see any of that from Amla.
I’ve never been a captain of a team. But people always listen just because of my work ethic.
I want to develop an atmosphere where the selectors, captain, and coach are on the same page because, unless this happens, there will be no turnaround in our cricket.
During my time we had two chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at different times of course, on the bridge, both of whom asked my permission to sit on the captain’s chair.
I always thought that the badge a cop has was more like the shield that Captain America has. It’s an obvious sign of good and something you’ll protect other people with, but it will also protect you.
My teammate Franco Baresi was a real captain. He was an example for everyone. Not a big talker. He never talked. But on the field or in training, he was No. 1.
I wanted to play a good guy after doing this lunatic on The Sopranos for two years. And then they did the sequel to Bad Boys, where I get to play the barking captain again.
Dhoni is easily the best captain Indian team had ever had, whatever people say.
Winston Churchill inspired my leadership philosophy. I’ve read a huge number of his writings, especially his diaries from the Second World War. His thoughts on leadership and duty have helped me as England captain.
My father is a retired army captain and banking software salesman, and my mother is an English teacher.
I’m not a good rapper. For whatever reason, my brain does not work that way. I just do the beginning, like, ‘Yeah, yeah! Ha ha! Woo! What up? Come on! Get at me!’ I’m Captain Hook.
Billy Bremner… was the captain of a very successful side. He was quite small but feisty as anything and that’s what I love, playing with people that get stuck in and don’t get bullied by other teams.
