Quotes About Responsibility

Everybody has something to prove each year. Everybody has a responsibility in this game. Even the batboy.

Money does not motivate me as long as I can provide for my children.

You know, if you need 100 rounds to kill a deer, maybe hunting isn't your sport.

Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.

If you make one mistake, it can result in vasectomy.

I have always tried to be true to myself, to pick those battles I felt were important. My ultimate responsibility is to myself. I could never be anything else.

Sometimes, it's good to have a tremendous star, because everyone understands he has to get the ball.

Think and then act. Never act and then alibi.

I'm trying to keep my own house from burning down. I can't worry about someone else's house.

I had to put it on the line, but it was my Tour to win and mine to lose.

If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?

All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.

If you want a thing done - go. If not - send.

I feel, first of all, very privileged that these people think enough of me that they made me commissioner. And it's almost like, as Yogi Berra said, 'deja vu all over again.'

There is no position in sport as noble as goaltending.

I don't like celebrity quarterbacks. We don't need those. We need battlefield commanders.

If we can't help our family, who are we going to help?

Let them police themselves, and then it goes another step past them to my coaches and there a coach that is responsible for a different area and different category on the field.

He was constantly on me about the job that I was to do and the responsibility that I had upon the campus. And how I must be able to carry myself because people were looking.

We are making politics a spectator sport in which our only duty is to vote somebody into office and then retire to the grandstands.

There are individuals who have never done anything for Jesus Christ, and I have no doubt there are preachers as well, who have never done anything for the God Almighty.

As a manager, you always have a gun to your head. It's a question of whether there is a bullet in the barrel.

To be honest, I still don't feel like I'm a representative or an ambassador for the sport.

That's why I'm very proud of being American. I'm proud to pay taxes. I pay a lot of taxes, but it sure beats the alternative.