Bob Stoops Quotes

The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

The boxing game has been good, so we need to give back. We have to teach young men how to be men.

The whole thing is develop players, develop them as people, develop teams.

One thing I've always prided myself on is understanding that to have success, you have to have high-character kids.

Every kid I've been around as a football player, they want their coaches to make them better as men and as players.

When you're talking to potential professional athletes, I really like to talk about the fact that even though you're a great athlete, that doesn't make you a good person. And if you can build that foundation first, everything else usually follows suit.

When I was in Baltimore, it was all about raising me and not having players come in and out of there. It was about raising men, and there was a reason why it built up to the success.

We will build men of character.

Work is one of the best educators of practical character.

I've never been a bad person and always had quite good morals. There's always been a side of me that's been quite proper, but it's got distracted here and there. Now I'm the person I should be.

I liked the military life. They teach you self-sufficiency early on. I always say that I learned most of what I know about leadership in the Marine Corps. Certain basic principles stay with you - sometimes consciously, mostly unconsciously.

I want to spend more time with those kids. I want to dedicate my time to train those kids and teach them what it takes, what they need to do to get to this level.

When any of us thinks of ourselves as a role model - whether that's as a parent being observed by their kids or a leader under the microscope of their followers - it creates a natural stepping up of how we carry ourselves and what we expect from ourselves.

There's no doubt West Point impacted who I am... It has an enormous emphasis, not only on military aspects, but character development. Whether it's the honor code, or the interactions you have, both with the cadet leadership and the academy leadership, every place you are is a character test.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

I grew up learning from a father who said, 'When you make a mistake or you make a bad decision, you man up and take responsibility.'

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.

The Boys and Girls Club taught me a lot about sportsmanship, humility, self-respect.

The best you can do is set your kids on the right track; staying on it without falling is up to the kids.

It's great to be somewhat of a role model. I want to be a positive and good role model and lead by example and try to do the best I can. Playing good golf definitely draws attention, but I want to have a good attitude on the course and do the right things.

It's absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.

The more consistent a father can be or a mentor can be in the person's life and teach them principles of real solid manhood, character, integrity and leadership, the more consistent you can be in the person's life and teach them those things at a younger age, and then the better off they'll be.

The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I now try to impress on young people.