Sports Leadership Quotes

I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball. ~ Mike Krzyzewski

My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team. ~ Don Shula

Millennials, instead of a danger, are really a reflection of the society in which they grew up in, and in which all of us now live. ~ Crystal Kadakia

With all of the talk about polling and demographics, I think too many people have lost touch with the human and moral crisis of deportations. Every day, roughly 1,000 people are deported because the Republican leadership of the House of Representatives is denying the majority of the US Congress a chance to vote on citizenship. I will be arrested today because the labor movement stands with the families tragically ripped apart by John Boehner and the House Republicans' embrace of a broken immigration system. ~ Arlene Holt Baker

A true leader is not meant to be greeted with unanimous praise by his people. A leader is meant to be questioned, to be suspect, to be hated. If he is not, then one can easily assume that either he has not challenged his abilities as a leader by making a decision that creates a split between the people, or he is forcing his subjects to bow before him. ~ Evan Meekins

You don t get the breaks unless you play with the team instead of against it. ~ Lou Gehrig

Of course the first version of an all-electric sports car is going to be expensive. ~ Jason Calacanis

My biggest pet peeve are just girls who go to sports bars who have no intention on caring what teams are playing, like they're looking for just a night out. That drives me more crazy than anything else. Like, don't pretend to be a sports fan. ~ Jerry Ferrara

It is a huge honour to be recognised as the world's best commentator, particularly against so many sporting greats. ~ Murray Walker

I am grateful for the support of those who want to see more women in Congress to better represent our country and provide leadership and solutions to DC. Ron Barber has been asleep at the switch on issues that are extremely important to Southern Arizona, such as fighting for the A-10 and Davis-Monthan. That is why Nancy Pelosi is stepping in to try to save his job in November. Sometimes the best man for the job is a woman that is why I fully intend on replacing Congressman Barber on Election Day. ~ Martha McSally

Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
[On Water] ~ Guy De Maupassant

It's like going into a nuclear war with bows and arrows. ~ Joe Kinnear

A true leader is responsible for his followers who have reposed their faith in his leadership. If an ordinary man fails, it is a personal failure. But when a leader fails, he shatters the entire ideologies, principles and morale of all those who followed him. The impact is much bigger and stakes are higher. ~ Awdhesh Singh

Winning is great, but it's the l9ong road to get there that makes it worthwhile. ~ Stan Smith

There was, however, a difference between his mood and that of the rest of the cabinet. They felt desperate; he felt challenged. ~ William Manchester

He communicates authenticity to an electorate ravenous for it. ~ Frank Bruni

I watched tapes and became a historian of the sport, and tried to combine certain elements and find things in the gym and saw what worked for me. ~ Holt McCallany

I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service. ~ Joseph Heller

Men sometimes seem more ready to accept women as brain surgeons than as athletes. ~ Janice Kaplan

The fight against HIV/AIDS requires leadership from all parts of government - and it needs to go right to the top. AIDS is far more than a health crisis. It is a threat to development itself. ~ Kofi Annan

In the long run, it is much easier to undo the policies of crooked leadership than to restore common sense and wisdom to a deceived population willing to elect such a leader in the first place. Any country can survive having chosen a fool as their leader. But history has shown time and again that a nation of fools is surely doomed. ~ Andy Andrews

I'll practice as good as I can, but I know that I play even better, with the qualities I have - leadership, my ability to make something happen in games, winning. ~ Tim Tebow

I literally tried every sport and was miserable. Soccer couldn't hold my attention. I couldn't figure skate. I'm afraid to swim. So I did dance for five years. It came a time where I was getting a little bit bored with it. ~ Alicia Sacramone

We were surprised, shocked really, to discover the type of leadership required for turning a good company into a great one. Compared to high-profile leaders with big personalities who make headlines and become celebrities, the good-to-great leaders seem to have come from Mars. Self-effacing, quiet, reserved, even shy - these leaders are a paradoxical blend of personal humility and professional will. They are more like Lincoln and Socrates than Patton or Caesar. ~ Jim Collins

I told myself after 2008 that I was done for good. But they say you can't keep a gymnast away from her sport. ~ Shawn Johnson

To a winner, complacency and overconfidence can be destructive. To losers, desperation and despondency are just as harmful. ~ Bill Walsh

The challenge coaches face is replacing players they were counting on to be major pieces of a puzzle. In a lot of cases, there is just no way to make the necessary adjustments. ~ Ron Jaworski

The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else. ~ Martina Navratilova

The dullest Olympic sport is curling, whatever 'curling' means. ~ Andy Rooney

Like if Leonardo from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles started being all bummed out about everything. How were we going to kick arse if our Leonardo was wearing a black eye-band instead of a blue one? ~ Dougie Poynter

You must emulate the truth you exhort. ~ Johnny Hunt

We all know that girls who compete in sports perform better in school, are physically healthier and have a stronger self-esteem. ~ Louise Slaughter

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball. ~ James Patrick Murray

Women feel a need for a certain level of prior training and experience that men do not necessarily demand in order to jump into a new role. There's a need for women to trust themselves more... ~ Selena Rezvani

Every NBA player, every athlete, I think once you get to this level in life, whether you have kids or you're about to have kids, understands that this is so much bigger than this sport. ~ Allan Houston

People around the world today, growing cautious of war and fearful of its consequences, have turned increasingly to its moral equivalent in team sports. ~ Edward O. Wilson

Sometimes your world falls apart. And it's okay for you to let people in and let them see you crumble ~ Jaci Burton