Wallis Simpson Quotes

Captains are always criticised.

Any time a team doesn't score points, it's on me.

If I am incompetent, I am useless, the people of India will see that.

Now where people are - at least the people I talk to - they are focused on issues of trust. Accountability also comes up, to make sure that this doesn't happen again.

You get blamed for whatever happens on your watch.

I have so much to live up to as well as live down.

I am always the one who is responsible for anything bad that happens in Indian cricket. Everything that happens is because of me.

Anytime you're playing with a team that's losing, the main guy is going to take a lot of the heat.

It is important for me, no matter whether I lead or not, that I continue my form even in the World Cup. It is important that you get runs because people look up to you, and the team also expects you to get runs being a senior member of the side.

When I step up to that penalty spot, I know the consequences. They're the same whether I miss the first, second, third - or the 10th - it will be the same.

When things go well, the quarterback is the one who sees all the attention. When things go wrong, they are the ones who get criticized the most.

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.

At Duke, the coaches would cover up for you. But with the Wolves, something happens and it's in the papers, and I'm blamed. Things are run differently here - the wrong way, if you ask me. One man wants to blame another.

I know what it means to play for a big club. Big clubs, it's like that: if you win, everything is good. If you lose, it's your fault, especially defenders and goalkeepers.

I think a lot of the time, when things were going wrong, I would get blamed for things because I was the point guard.

We take the plaudits when things are going well so you have to take the criticism when it's not going well.

I shall claim full amends for every fall and stubbed toe, if you do not lead us well.

Listen to what I tell you and do it. If you do, three things can happen: One, it will work and you'll get credit. Two, it won't work and I'll get the blame. Three, you'll do it wrong and you'll be gone.

I cannot afford to make mistakes.

In the end leaders are leaders. They get the credit and they get the blame.

Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action.

Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.

In the first rule of politics, you know, Harry Truman, the buck stops here. Take responsibility. What I've learned over the years is that people will give people in politics a lot of rope if they just take responsibility.

You who choose to lead must follow. But if you fall, you fall alone.

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you're held responsible for everything, but you don't always have control of everything, right?