Quotes About Leadership

You feel like a stud out there when people swing and miss. As I've gotten older, I've preached to our young guys that strikeouts are sexy, but outs are outs, man, no matter how you get them. It's a lot cooler for me pitching in the seventh or eighth inning than it is going 5 1/3. Your manager likes it a lot more, too.

If you want to steal a base, steal a base. Don't make the hitter swing at a bad pitch trying to protect the runner.

You can't build teams with drastic changes or a drastic swing of players.

I very much admired Lancaster. George Clooney reminds me of him today. Not all the macho, swinging around that Burt used to do, but the courage. You know where you stand with men like that.

I'm comfortable swinging the ball at the top of the key.

Politics is a pendulum that swings constantly. It's really hard to say what's going to happen in four years or in two years or in one year.

I run a creative company, and the best way to support creatives is to make them fearless and willing to take big swings. That is an important part of our culture at A&E Networks.

After 9/11, I didn't look to go sit on the Swiss desk - I stepped up. I was not on the sidelines.

Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went.

I used to get into the government car and switch on Chopin or someone I liked to hear at the end of a parliamentary day.

Once you look up, and it's Week 14 or 15, and it's crunch time, you can't all of a sudden turn on a switch and say, 'Hey guys, we have to step up and be brothers, be family.' That's stuff that is developed in the offseason, training camp, or throughout the season.

Management is all-encompassing. That's something I've learned since starting this job. I find it very difficult to switch off. I can be at the cinema or out for a meal with my wife, and I'm thinking constantly about what my players are doing.

It's not hard at all to make the switch from United to Oranje. For a manager, it's totally different than for a player.

On the aircraft carrier under my command, where the average age of sailors was 19 and a half, you could see accountability in action at all times. You especially saw it when an order was given that a plane about to launch suddenly must be switched out for another and kept on board.

Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England.

No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.

For too long, I equated leadership with a position. I thought leaders were presidents or politicians or celebrities or four-star generals with a horse and sword.

Yeah, I don't know whether it would be a coach's dream to coach the world No1 or a double-edged sword.

There is always a gap between what candidates say in the heat of the campaign, when they are not constrained by the realities of governance, and how they act after being sworn into office.

You cannot treat Sydney the same as the rest of the state.

I believe that my father has become an ongoing symbol of what it means to keep on fighting for what is good in oneself, in others, and in our country.

Now, do I think there has to be shared sacrifice among other nations in the world who want a stable and secure world? Absolutely, there has to be. But I don't think that America can ever abdicate its leadership role in the world because of who we are and where we've come from. We are the symbol for the world for freedom and liberty.

With hindsight, it is easy to understand why Nelson Mandela became a heroic symbol to an entire generation as he used his newly gained freedom to lead South Africa out of the shackles of apartheid.