Quotes About Leadership

I'm carrying the sport of women's boxing and I am the best woman fighter and that's my role.

I feel like we have a duty as fighters to try and be a better example.

Yeah, like '300,' I've probably watched it 300 times. It's one of my favourite films. I've just finished watching 'Spartacus,' another great series. I relate a lot to those kind of films. I think most fighters should relate to those films. It just seems natural. I am Spartacus, I am Leonidas, I am the lead role in those films.

In an age of reckonings, when so many bills have come due, Obama has made the case for an America that can no longer do it all. It must pick its fights.

If you're going to be a fighter, and you're going to fight for the future of this country and lead the Democratic Party, then you can't be ducking fights.

If any party fights the election on the basis of religion, it will not succeed.

You have to learn to stand on your own two feet without a father figure around. You have to set an example.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game - if I put everything into the fight business - then I would eventually run the fight business.

I've already figured out when I'm going to be No. 2 and No. 1.

I figured there's nobody who's going to beat me or shoot me or crucify me. I can't help if people don't like me up there in Washington. I've got a district that I respect, and I think it respects me.

There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.

For more than two decades, Barry Diller has been among the most respected - and feared - figures in the entertainment industry.

I've always respected the authority figures in my life, including my coaches.

My father figures were my coaches.

Mayors of New York are almost automatically national figures.

It's a cliche but I would rather be involved in a winning team than have good figures.

It's about being a voice in the community. There's so many ways to be a voice, and that's what I'm figuring out.

It's very difficult to fill the shoes of somebody like Rahul Bhai. He has set the bench mark for a generation to come. However, it's our responsibility to carry forward his legacy.

You always have to figure out what the director is good at before you work with them; then you can fill in if need be.

Everton have had great centre-forwards in the past - they are big boots to fill.

Women in Film and Television is such an important body.

When I wanted to become a filmmaker, there was nobody for me to look up to.

Every great filmmaker at some moment makes a war film.

As a filmmaker, I'm a collaborator first.