Michael Carter-Williams Quotes

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

I believe the reason for my early independence is sport, through which I learnt at an early stage to take care of myself and be disciplined.

I've had to be a man since I was 12 or 13. I had a job. And I was playing the piano for people twice my age. Handling responsibility is what makes a man a man.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

You grow year after year with responsibility, and for me, it's not important who has the armband but that everyone on the pitch gives the right signals.

Coming from college, where they tell you exactly what you have to do, and they tell you have to be at this at this time, you kind of get punishment for that. Now you're in the NFL, and you have to do it on your own.

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.

The Marines gave me a really strong sense of discipline and a work ethic that kicks in at my job.

Grown men do not need leaders.

The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

Freedom comes with a lot of responsibility. When you are by yourself, you have to develop a third eye.

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

It's absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.

I take personal responsibility for everything I say.

When you empower people you sign up for a life of uncertainty and change.

I give people a huge amount of rope, and then I hold them accountable for the rope.

It's amazing, the culture Coach Belichick has been able to create in our system.

Self-government won't work without self-discipline.

I need to have a great deal of control and the ability to share my control with my collaborators and grant them the freedom and the quality of work I think these people deserve. If I don't have those elements, I walk away.

I felt that I had, again, great freedom to do what I wanted to do. I felt that I was trusted to train my soldiers, and I was accountable for it.

To be honest helps you a lot to not waste time. It's also the way I help the players most. It doesn't matter if it is the captain or the last reserve player, I try to be honest.

Anytime the coach gives you the ball and some encouragement, you get a sense of freedom.