Gary Sheffield Quotes

People of power have to show empathy and kindness to the young.

Being a good neighbour is about compassion, which is as warm-blooded as justice is cool-headed.

It's important for me who is at the table with me; the moment when everyone speaks to each other and everyone listens. If there's good food, it's much better.

I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what would cause the other person to feel good.

People should look up to me. Young kids. I am a good role model. I'll show them how men should really be. And kids can take note from that. I am a good role model. Lots of kids look up to me.

Sometimes we are much better at judging people based on how they treat everyone other than ourselves. We make a million excuses for why they treat us how they do.

I treat the young boys as I wanted to be treated when I came through at Aston Villa.

The worst mistake you can make is underrating your enemy. Assuming that they're evil - I think it's a terrible thing to do.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

People just deserve to be treated with kindness.

And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.

I think you can be the greatest orator of all time, the greatest motivator of all times, but if those players know that you don't care about them, and you don't try to understand them, then they're never going to hear what you have to say.

The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

I always kind of thought I want to be a good person, I want to be right to my fellow men and love them like we're supposed to.

Be good, kind, and friendly to the receptionist. She's had a hard day.

Take care that no one hates you justly.

I'm very aware there are lots of other people who are just bright and working just as hard, with just the same dedication to make the world a good place.

Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man.

If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one will say that you are good. If you are good to everyone, no one will say that you are good.

Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.

Can you be a nicer gentleman, or a better man for your sport or your kids than Joe Paterno?

I answer a fan with a hearing heart first.

Many men fail because they do not see the importance of being kind and courteous to the men under them. Kindness to everybody always pays for itself. And, besides, it is a pleasure to be kind.