Quotes About Responsibility

If you're the person living closest to the parent who's going to need help, and you take on the whole role of primary caregiver, you can be pretty sure your sibling who lives farthest away is going to call you and say, 'You don't know what you're doing.' Because they're not on the spot, and they probably feel guilty.

Being Speaker of the House is a really tough spot.

You can't take a single day for granted in the National Football League. Every single day, you need to earn your spot on the roster.

I have to put people in the right spot so that if they execute, we win.

When I step up to that penalty spot, I know the consequences. They're the same whether I miss the first, second, third - or the 10th - it will be the same.

Obviously, you have to play well to keep your spot.

You don't want to put somebody in a bad spot because you'll put everybody in a bad spot.

I love being in a spot where not only do I expect my own greatness - I'm also part of an organization that expects greatness from me. Or just think of it this way: Would you want to be the dude who lets Pat Riley down?

It's good to see somebody step up and perform in a tough spot.

I'm aware that what I say is going to reach a lot of people so I'm always very careful. But I'm human and I screw up - I'm not very good at saying things on the spot - so I'll say something and go, 'aw, man, I should have worded that better than I actually did.'

I realized, if I don't step into the spotlight, and the person next to me doesn't step in, and the people around me don't step in, then who will?

Part of my role and part of my job is to shine a spotlight on issues that need that spotlight, whether it's people, whether it's causes, issues, whatever it is.

A lot of kids my age can make a lot of mistakes, but college athletes that are in the spotlight, you have to grow up so much faster than regular students or regular kids your age because you are a public figure, so you get one shot, sometimes two.

When you do things wrong, even a couple of mistakes, the press has the right to criticise. Much more so when you're a goalkeeper - who remain in the spotlight forever.

Being in the public eye and basically growing up in the spotlight, we are always responsible for our actions.

For better or worse, when you're running for mayor, there's a little bit of a spotlight on you.

Our players are role models; there's no question about it. Whether they want to be or not. They are. So they're in the spotlight. So if they do something that's wrong, that's in the spotlight, too.

There is always pressure playing cornerback. It's just a position where you're always in the spotlight.

There's a blessing that you're in a spotlight, but people follow you and want to keep asking you questions - it's just overwhelming sometimes.

What has to be understood is that most whistle-blowers are not natural activists - this one certainly wasn't. We usually work in anonymous jobs, far from the spotlight. We are not campaigners, or journalists, or wannabe celebrities, craving a platform. Our conscience tells us we have to reveal what we know.

I'm the type of person that, when it's my time in the spotlight, I'll do my duty in the spotlight. When it's not, and it's another person's time, I'll go away.

I have paid for things that I had done because I have been in the spotlight.

At Arsenal and the so-called big clubs, you always know that there will be a bigger spotlight on every single position.

I do my job - I don't try to seek the spotlight; that's not my way.