Quotes About Responsibility

At the end of it, I'll maybe do a coaching badge but I'm not going to get forced into things.

I'm sure at some point I will get back into coaching, but right now I need to focus completely on my kids.

There's a very public quality to coaching.

When you're on TV, you're still coaching, believe it or not. You're just coaching America, you're not coaching one team.

My job is to get my shots up, to come to work, to watch film and get out of there. I don't get into the management and coaching side, that's their job - that's what they get paid for.

People have wanted me to get involved in politics, you know, when I was coaching and I kept telling them, 'It's not for me to get up here and influence people.'

Coaching was something I've never had much interest in. I've always been a big-picture guy, like a manager has to be.

I couldn't go off and leave Stephen. Coals of fire would have been heaped on my head if I had.

I know the pain of coalition government.

The job of nation building, the job of nation leadership in a difficult, complex coalition has worked.

You only realise when you have children of your own how much your parents do for you. My dad, Colin, would get off work at 5pm and take me straight out and all over the country for football matches.

White collar crime must be taken as seriously as any other crime.

David Cameron needs to get his head out of the sand. He and his colleagues need to see what poverty is really like.

Certain crimes cannot be prevented unless there is a daily collective work done diligently.

All the players have this responsibility of playing for the collective and also being individuals with some specific characteristics.

If we want the world to change, we can change it. But in order to change it, the world collectively has to do better.

The only people I don't answer are bill collectors.

Anytime I look at a president, I don't care what color he is.

With or without the armband, I would love to pull on the country's colours. That doesn't change.

I think I'd be a better president because I was in combat.

In China we need to do our own part to try to combat global climate change.

I have led men in combat.

At the end of the day local authorities are responsible for economic growth in their area. They don't buy and sell businesses, they don't build businesses, what they do is work to attract businesses their area, through a combination of things.

Americans want a nation-state: our own country with a history of freedom combined with responsibility.