Gina McCarthy Quotes

When you're in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There's also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.

You have to build a team, but someone's got to lead, and someone's got to be unpopular at times.

You know, one of the things I've learnt since coming out of office is how much easier it is to give the advice than take the decision. I mean, you know, it's tough.

Presidents make their hard decisions and then abide forever with their mistakes and regrets.

Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.

I want to tell you ladies and gentlemen, the actions that we took were not always easy. The actions that we took were not always popular. But when you get yourself in public office, you must lead, you must do what's necessary.

If I'm a leader, I have a mission.

In this job, you're going to make decisions. You'll say things that some people are going to love them, some people are going to hate them. It's just part of the job.

Part of my job is to make the tough calls.

When it comes to making tough decisions, I'm ready to make them.

It's hard to be a leader when you have to make hard choices and when you have to do what's right, even though people are not going to like you for it.

That's the true meaning of being a leader: being able to deal with the consequences and take the responsibility for it. That's who I want to be.

Being chief selector has been the most challenging role of my cricket career, as I was heavily criticised for my decisions, and I couldn't respond much.

My job isn't to win popularity contests.

Making tough decisions that may make someone unhappy is something to get good at doing.

I realise that sometimes you have to make tough decisions and football doesn't wait for people.

You have to make some hard decisions when you're speaker.

Part of being a leader means knowing who you can go after and who you should pat on the butt.

It is important to have leadership groups, but at the end of the day I need to be taking the call because I'm responsible for the team and I should know exactly what I'm doing and I believe in that.

Managing can be more discouraging than playing, especially when you're losing because when you're a player, there are at least individual goals you can shoot for. When you're a manager all the worries of the team become your worries.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.

During my time as England captain I have always been both helpful and direct in my communications with the ECB.

I figure it's okay to make certain rules, whether or not people despise you for it at the time.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

The rule for effective governance is simple. It is one Ronald Reagan knew by heart. And one that he successfully employed with Social Security and the Cold War. When there is a problem, you fix it. That is the job you have been sent to do and you cannot wait for someone else to do it for you.