Ever since I was a boy, I have wanted to be a professional footballer and to captain my country one day.
Aaron Ramsey
Obviously, I was disappointed to lose the captaincy. I was very proud to be captain of my country.
I love keeping. I'm in the game all the time. I see angles that I wouldn't normally see, and I feel part of what the captain does.
AB de Villiers
As a captain, I can't make the same mistake twice. As a player, you can get away with that, but if the captain does that, then it affects the whole team.
It was a bit of a surprise when the national captaincy came my way.
I had a long run as a captain. I had some fantastic ups and also quite a few lows in between.
Captaining South Africa was definitely not one of my goals.
I truly love captaining. I've grown into enjoying it.
I have been massively proud to have played for and, indeed, captain my country on the cricket field.
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.
Adam DeVine
The Russo brothers are the best people ever, and they cast me in 'Happy Endings.' I did text Joe Russo to say, 'I don't think my character dies, so if you need a local news cameraman to show up in 'Captain America 2'... I know it doesn't make sense, but just hear me out on this!' He was really cool about it and turned me down right away.
Adam Pally
I did a character called Captain Q for Nestle's Quik. Those commercials were kind of funny.
Adam West
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.
Aditi Rao Hydari
The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't communicate very well. I am like Captain Run-on Sentence.
Ahmet Zappa
When you step out of the team environment you think, 'Wow, I'm England captain and we've just won the Ashes.'
Alastair Cook
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.
When someone says, 'How long do you see yourself captaining for?' you don't really know.
The England captaincy job, after 50-odd games, has found out what kind of leader I am in terms of a person. It's made me feel far more confident in terms of talking to a group in any situation. But it has taken me a long time to feel like I've been doing it naturally.
The captaincy thing is brilliant, and I love it. But I didn't start off playing cricket to captain England. I wanted to score runs and stuff.
You're only England captain for a very short space of time.
I've got that ruthlessness inside me. All good captains have to be able to say things like that - with good man-management skills.
When I was made captain, one of my things was that whatever happens in those four years, you don't want to make major changes just before a World Cup. We'd done it before, and it never worked.
Just because you're made England captain, it doesn't mean that you suddenly know everything about captaincy.
Throughout my career I have done it my way and used my stubborn streak. I thought the best way to captain was to shut out all the noise - I did it with my batting and thought 'that has served me well, so why change it?'
I suppose you could say I was always having to defend my style of captaincy. I did get a lot of criticism - some of it justified, other times as part of a tactic.
Learning on the job as England captain is hard.
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.
Even when every Tom, Dick and Harry was calling for my head, I still felt I could get better at being captain.
My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.
Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.
Every sea-captain who sailed to the West Indies was expected to bring home a turtle on the return voyage for a feast to his expectant friends.
I've been the captain of my wrestling team, my college team, so to me, I've been in that leadership role for a very long time.
Ultimately I'm the captain, but if someone can't get themselves in the right state to play, it's not my job. If they don't want to come into work determined to be the best they can be, they're in the wrong job.
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.
I went from just a regular nappy-headed kid in poverty to Amar'e Stoudemire, New York Knicks captain superstar. But there's a lot in between that allowed me to get from point A to point B.
A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there.
Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.
We learn that our lives find narrative form neither in the tired, familiar slogans of our captains nor in the symmetries of ideological camps, but in the differences that thrive behind settled, more clear-cut divisions.
In the Navy, the captain doesn't leave the bridge when the ship is in distress. It's a pretty basic leadership principle.
The distinction is large in my mind. The gay police captain is eventually going to be wearing hot pants and singing 'YMCA.' The police captain who happens to be gay is going to be a huge collection of personality characteristics and motivations.
In my early England days, there was a bit of tension with captain Nasser Hussain.
When you get offered the captaincy, you've got to have a go. In India, where it went well, I was playing well ,and anything that needed doing, I'd do it myself. When I wasn't playing well, it was tough.
I've had a go at captaincy. Batting and bowling and captaincy turned out to be a bit too much.
It is one thing being scrutinised for playing a bad shot as a batsman or bowling a bad spell as a bowler, but the captaincy adds an extra dimension. The criticism is slightly harder to take.
Playing for England was always something I dreamt of and, of course, you then think of the captaincy. It was something I never thought I would be offered, especially after the way I started my career. But when it came along, I was very keen to have a go.
I always wanted to captain the teams I played in.
Just before I left Dundee United, I captained them for one game, although I think that was maybe to keep me there!
I've been very fortunate that I've played under a lot of very good captains.
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 can understand the argument that the captain should always be there to lead from the front.
