Quotes About Accountability

It's all about getting better. You don't want a coach that says, 'It's all right, it's all right,' and it's not all right.

I am not running for president, but I've always known if I ever did run for president - or local dogcatcher, for that matter - the boy I bullied would and should arise as a necessary ghost from my past.

Being leader is a tough gig.

I don't think you can control people. I don't think you manage people. I think you give people a direction, you give them the resources, you lead by example. They get it right, you say, 'Atta girl.' And they get it wrong, you say, 'Not good.'

I don't want a girlfriend because that means I've got a responsibility. I have a responsibility to call you. I have a responsibility not to be with another woman. I have a responsibility to be there on time when you need me.

I do think that being a sort of celebrity and being well off does give me some responsibility.

To sit back and say, 'Oh, we're going to let the government do whatever they want, right or wrong,' is giving up.

Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad.

If men can learn to be less defensive, more open to others, and more accepting of accountability, they will adapt well to the new global economy.

I've learned during my life that if I am in hell, I make my own glory. I've also been in glory, and perhaps I've made my own hell, but I certainly don't take anyone down with me.

If I come on for 10 minutes and play well, I can't go home and tell everyone, 'I played a great 10 minutes.' I have to play the full 90.

I had to wonder if I lost out on fight opportunities and sponsorships. But at the end of the day, I'm the one who has to go home at the end of the day and be okay with myself. I have a son. I have to answer to my son.

I used to cry when I let in a goal. I always thought I was to blame because I was the last man.

To be a Barca goalkeeper, it's not enough to have quality. You have to make decisions and execute them.

There is always a case as a goalkeeper, if you make an error, it will lead to a goal.

Freak mistakes happen sometimes as a goalkeeper that if you make them, then it's always going to bite you.

If you concede a goal, it can be up to seven or eight mistakes leading up to it but, obviously, as a goalkeeper you have to accept it has gone past you.

I have always said that a striker scores a goal but not every goal is scored by a striker. A goalkeeper can make a mistake which is a goal, but every goal still goes past him and you have to accept that.

You can't blame another person for your world being different - or things like divorce. It gets right on my goat when people don't take responsibility.

There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.

You can't have mental breakdowns defensively because teams like Golden State and Cleveland will make you pay dearly.

No one at Goldman Sachs gets paid out of his or her own P&L. It matters how your business is doing, but it matters more how the firm as a whole is doing.

There are no good and bad peoples; there are only leaderships that behave responsibly or insanely.

Despite claims that there are good and bad cops, we know that the system is failing everyone - including the police.