Nick Foles Quotes

Who am I that I have to sing under an umbrella? These people are my fans, and if they can stand in the rain to hear me sing, I can stand in the rain.

It would be very ungrateful of me to turn my back or stop doing work in Latin America.

May the spirit of devotion to duty which inspires us always dominate this Committee's conferences!

I thank my personal staff for their restless sacrifice for my work.

I'm trying to stay humble because if I don't keep producing results, all of this goes away, so I want to focus on the people close to me - my family and my team; they mean everything to me.

The whole reason I fight is for my family. Everything I do is for them.

My team-mates appreciate that I do the dirty work and I know it is necessary.

I'm very thankful for what I have. I don't want to let anyone down.

I want to thank the military community for their support. I'll never be able to explain how much you motivated me and how much I always tried to make you proud.

Sometimes when people get success they forget about the people that pointed them there or championed them into this position. I pride myself on really understanding. I wouldn't even call it keeping it real. I just call it keeping it me. When they tell me, "You're doing what you're supposed to do," it makes me go ten times even harder, because I know that there are people on the sidelines and they're watching me. They're cheering for me. I want to be the best me I could possibly be when it comes to them.

I like to always lead from the front and set an example for whoever is playing with me or around me. I like taking responsibilities. That is my natural thing.

I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. That's what I try to do.

A lot of things I am, and a lot of things I am not. But I think I'm about as good an American as there is. I love this country. It's been very, very good to me. And it will be good to anybody if they are willing to give of themselves.

I believed and still believe that success is only part of the story. It makes you want to get better and better so as not to let yourself down and not to let the people down who like what you do and you don't waste your success.

I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible... and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary.

I'm proud, I've been working with this kind of self-sacrificing people like you.

Thank you to everyone that has made me the athlete I am! God, family and friends, my competitors and supporters! You have all had a hand!

The people have given me their support; they have given me their trust and confidence. My colleagues have suffered a lot in order to give me support. I do not look upon my life as a sacrifice at all.

The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.

I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.

I owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing.

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

Your sacrifices have made this country what it is.

One of the signs of natural leaders of men (and women) was their readiness to take the necessary pains to keep their followers with them.

Being of service is not enough. You must become a servant of the people. When you do, you can demand their commitment in return