Ricardo Montalban Quotes

In the military, I learned that 'leadership' means raising your hand and volunteering for the tough, important assignments.

It's nice to put your hand up and do the big things the team requires of you.

I never really sought out the captaincy at any stage in my career. Now that it has been handed to me, I would obviously like to do it justice and keep performing well. The day I stop performing will be the day I happily relinquish the role.

You have to step up when your number is called.

May the spirit of devotion to duty which inspires us always dominate this Committee's conferences!

I certainly do not want to be remembered as a good captain who perhaps didn't contribute with the bat as much as he might have done.

My individual role is to take the innings as deep as I can and perform in a way that benefits the team most.

In carrying out every aspect of our work, CIA officers are guided by a professional ethos that is the sum of our abiding principles, core values, and highest aspirations. These include service, integrity, excellence, courage, teamwork, and stewardship. Sacrifice, too, is an inescapable part of our mission.

As captain I enjoy the responsibility. Even when I didn't have the armband I was doing a lot outwith the club so it has been an easy transition.

If the team needs you, you need to sacrifice.

I always try to give everything for the team, whether I start or don't start.

I just want to go out there and just be that player that my team needs me to be, whatever they need me to do.

I like to always lead from the front and set an example for whoever is playing with me or around me. I like taking responsibilities. That is my natural thing.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

That's one of my jobs, just trying to do what I can to help this team out as much as possible.

Suddenly in the end when it's over, you feel a big weight on your shoulders. That's the role of the captain. Unfortunately, it's sometimes like that in sport.

For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

[President] McKinley gave [Lt. Andrew Sommers] Rowan a letter to be delivered to [General Calixto] Garcia: Rowan took the letter and did not ask, "Where is he at?" By the eternal, there is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze and the statue placed in every college in the land. It is not book learning that young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do the thing—"carry a message to Garcia.

I promise you that during my life, I was more concerned about not letting people down, about doing my part, than I was ever into what it did for me.

I knew that to be successful, I had to be more than a scorer. I had to become a leader. It's not about scoring. It's about doing what my team needs me to do.

My opportunity, when it ever does come, I want to be ready. But my job, my role, and that's not going to change, is to be the best teammate I can be.

Whatever the team needs, I'll do.

Who I am is a guy who's going to do whatever the team needs.

Whatever my role is on each play, that's just what I have to do. I have to do my job. That's pretty much it, regardless of whether it's inside or outside.