Jesse Owens Quotes

I never thought that I'd be a role model. Everyone kind of just made me a role model, and I hated that.

If you're on the top guy, you're going to get some balls thrown your way.

As a quarterback, obviously, you're going to be put in the forefront whether you like it or not, and if you're not then you're not doing your job.

I understand there are a lot of people looking up to me.

I knew there was going to be pressure on me with the captaincy. I knew people would be writing about my performances more than anyone else's, but that's not a problem because I have my dad telling me about my performance every single game, and he is my biggest critic.

I never knew a manager that didn't have pressure.

Unfortunately, the manager is always the one who gets under pressure the most.

It's easy to be just a basketball player, get paid and come here to do that. But to be professional about it is different.

It's crazy that people are looking to me as a symbol like, 'Oh, he's the voice of the youth. He's this and this and that.' I feel like there's a lot of pressure that comes with it, when people look to you as the face of something.

When you play quarterback and the offense doesn't play well, a lot of that is because of the quarterback. You're going to receive the criticism.

Captains are always criticised.

All my coaches will tell you that I am a great professional.

Obviously if your head coach expects more of you, you bring it to the table.

Of course you get butterflies as a manager.

I have to just come to work every single day. That's not just on the field but off the field, because you have little kids looking up to you; your face is the face of this franchise and this university. You have to understand that every decision that you make is going to be criticized.

Jeter was no choir boy, Jeter has lived a life. But it's always stayed separate from what happened when he showed up at Yankee Stadium. And that's really to his credit.

Barry Hearn has said there's no time for playboys, but I'm not a playboy.

You will always be judged as a Liverpool player but, as a captain, you will be judged on what you win, basically. If you're doing well, and the team is winning everything, you become a very good captain.

When you play quarterback in the NFL, you're going to get scrutinized.

If you don't take it for granted that the other man will do his job, you're not an executive.

It's a lot harder to keep your cool than it is to lose it. That's on any work ethic. Even if you're a big producer on a movie set, or whatever, it's a lot harder to be a pro than be a baby on your crew. That's one work ethic to keep in mind, as one bad apple could give five people a bad day, when that one person could've stepped up their own efforts a little more and not bring anyone else down.

When I see my staff take a step back because I've lost my cool about something food-related, I say never apologise for your standards. If someone doesn't meet them, then you should explain that and that you want it changed. I want my staff to be like that, too.

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

I have lived my life that way and I expect the people who work for me to be the same way.

I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.