Quotes About Integrity

I would never put on a Mets hat. Only if I was playing a Met as part of the job. Which, actually, I did a long time ago.

In Mexico, you have to defend yourself and your honour.

You look at Michael McDonald and people like that; I think they just tried to write music that was true to themselves. That's our bottom line. Whatever people view us as, I think as long as we try to create good music that will win out in the end.

Just to assassinate Michael Brown's character is wrong.

I know my brother. Michael, he's not that kind of person. He doesn't do that. That's all a lie on him.

My name is Michael Pennington, and I am not a comic character.

I love Michael Bay movies. I don't think I'd be selling out if I did one. I happen to like his movies. I think selling out is doing something you don't believe in, and you're doing it for a selfish purpose.

Being Michael Jordan means acting the same as I always have.

Michelle Obama, one of my inspirations, said 'when they go low, we go high,' and it was a thing that I really carried with me.

I don't want to be the guy who's 50-something years old sitting in front of a microphone with my beard dyed black and my hat on backwards, yo-yo-yoing.

We are the ones out there competing, and yet we read articles and listen to people making accusations about Jamaica, and there's nobody there to take a microphone, be a big person and say, 'What you're saying is wrong, and it's a lie.'

My middle class values are intact.

When I ascended from the depths of the working class to the middle class, the higher I got, the more dishonesty I found.

If the deal is not right, just walk away. You don't have to take it, you don't have to keep going, arguing or trying to find a middle ground. If you're not comfortable with it, just go.

It is easy to stand for freedom and justice in the midst of peace.

Communities do not benefit from criminals in their midst.

Sometimes you do get caught up in the midst of becoming... a product, a brand, and not having a say in any of that.

I'm not driven by the mighty dollar.

As far as Mike Dolce goes, I would never hire him again for anything.

Mike Tomlin, man, is one of the realest coaches out there. He keeps everything real; he keeps it 100. He doesn't lie to you. He doesn't sugarcoat anything. And that's what I like about him.

Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.

My father-in-law, Mike Sherman, coached a long, long time, and he just said, 'Be true to yourself. Be who you are, and people will follow you.' And I found that way to work for me.

What is the future going to say about us now? What are our kids going to look at us and say, 'How could you not stop that person from getting into power? How could you not stop that environmental disaster that you saw coming a mile away?'

Military leaders aren't made. They are born. To be a good leader, you have to have something in your character to cause people to follow you.