Robert E. Lee Quotes

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.

The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you.

It's not how you play the game, it's how you place the blame.

Never tell anyone outside my staff that the Submarine Force and the First Air Fleet were responsible for the failure at Midway. The failure at Midway was mine.

Always, when things don't go the way that everyone expects, people - the supporters as well - always look for someone to blame. In some cases, they blame the players.

Captains are always criticised.

When you win, that's what you're expected to do and when you lose, people get on your back.

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

Victory has 1,000 fathers; defeat has 1,000 kibitzers.

You can't mess up. If you do, everyone wants to kill you.

Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.

Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing.

I am aware that as an actor, I can blame others for the failure of a film, the director, the script, choice of co-stars, timing of the release and so on. But now, as the director, I will have to shoulder all the blame.

There's no way you can win when you're the president; you've got to be the scapegoat for America's issues.

That's true, you don't want to let anybody down and here are millions of people who've been waiting for their favorite characters to be brought to life and you don't want to disappoint.

Being a leader requires being confident enough in your own decisions and those of your team to own them when they fail. The very best leaders take the blame but share the credit.

In baseball it’s three strikes and you’re out. What is it for the Secretary of Defense? …. Isn’t it time for you to resign.

You get blamed for whatever happens on your watch.

Victory finds a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

I thought his genius was military, but that as a party manager, he would not succeed. He did not know the arts of the politician and would not practice them if understood, and he did know those of war.

… the always unfortunate general is always a culpable one

It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures... that is devilishly hard

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

When you look at myself, I'm a coach, and that's what it's all about. When you're a player, you get criticized, and when you're a coach, you get criticized even more because it's about wins and losses.

If you're the star of a show, the next one has to be as good or better, and if you're doing a series, if anything goes wrong, it's your fault. There's nobody else to blame.