Quotes About Leadership

In politics as in sports, the best defense is a good offense.

If you only take offense when the president of your party is compared to Hitler, then you're part of the problem.

I feel like with me being a big part of any offense, then the numbers are going to come.

Joe Prunty will take over, and he will run the team. But nobody gets out of their lane. Joe will still be offense, and Sweeney will still be defense.

I'm never going to sub-contract out jobs for offense and defense. I'm always going to hire people I believe in - and are going to do things our way, that are going to believe in process, that are going to be part of a program.

It's great knowing going into the week that you have a guy like Peyton Manning that's going to throw you the ball. You know that during the week, he's working on different things that's going to help our offense, stuff that makes you get better.

But when it comes to things of the mind, things like coaching, game-planning, coming up with offensive and defensive schemes, there's no reason why a woman couldn't be in the mix and shouldn't be in the mix.

I love offensive coaches.

If your offensive and defensive lines are speaking and people are listening, you've got a very good chance of success.

We have to build that African-American offensive coordinator/quarterback coach that is going to be a head coach. I think that's our job as head coaches - to find those guys.

That's what most players know about me, that I can change the game without scoring or even having a good offensive night.

I can create offensive situations for myself and I can create situations for other people.

I think you look at a lot of sports, it starts with the guys up front. Your defensive line and offensive line in football and your big man in basketball, different stuff like that.

I will offer a choice, not an echo.

I come by my conservatism authentically, not by convenience. And I offer the American people a new direction.

We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq.

The United States has far more to offer the world than our bombs and missiles and our military technology.

I think a lot of people are getting more serious about how to do the most good, but there is no road map. I'm hoping I can offer an example.

If I'm on the board of any company where there's an offer that comes in, I want to negotiate.

As Scots, we certainly want change today, but the change the Nationalists offer is not the change we want or need.

The certainty with which Cameron informed MPs and Shadow ministers of the specifics of a Labour offer that never actually existed suggests a degree of flexibility with the truth.

People ask the question, 'If you're offered VP, would you take it?' No, I won't take it.

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.

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.