Quotes About Responsibility

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.

Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.

God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.

We don't need refs, but I guess white guys need something to do.

Sports ideally teach discipline and commitment. They challenge you and build character for everything you do in life.

No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.

Saving civilization is not a spectator sport.

Blame is the cowards way out.

Don't just stand back and play the way you're coached. A great player must rise to the occasion and turn the game around on his own.

A good catcher is the quarterback, the carburetor, the lead dog, the pulse taker, the traffic cop and sometimes a lot of unprintable things, but no team gets very far without one.

You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.

There's nothing wrong with the Little League World Series that locking out the adults couldn't cure.

The best way to handle responsibility is to break it down into smaller parts. Take care of one small thing at a time.

In a crisis, don't hide behind anything or anybody. They're going to find you anyway.

I play with a fear of letting my team down. That's what motivates me.

Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.

Play every game as if your job depended on it. It just might.

I'm not a role model... Just because I dunk a basketball doesn't mean I should raise your kids.

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

True Grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done. No moral man can have peace of mind if he leaves undone what he knows he should have done.

If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.

The coach is the team, and the team is the coach. You reflect each other.

God gets you to the plate, but once you're there you're on your own.

You know, there's a rule in sports, "Don't do anything great if you can't handle the congratulations."