Mike Quade Quotes

I demand a lot from myself and reflect this attitude upon others: I consider it to be an important quality for a leader. I also think it is impossible to achieve success without persistence.

When you are in my classroom, you get everything from me. But you bloody well better give everything too.

I am asking of no man more than I myself was ready throughout four years to do

There is a great responsibility on the team to perform well, because our supporters and the whole of the country are expecting us to do just that.

When you think about a drill sergeant, a drill sergeant expects you to perform your best, and if you don't, they're going to stay on you until you do.

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

I think I'm fairly demanding, probably. You have to feel that when you're appointed to a job you have to do the job.

Our demands are very high, very great, but I want to ask every player every day to give us more.

I expect a lot. And, I hold my teammates accountable and they've got to hold me accountable.

When you play for United, you have to perform every week.

You must never ask or expect anyone to do anything that you would not be prepared to do yourself.

I want to put expectations on our team that are high. That's kind of the way I've always been, and I want to put those expectations on our team as well.

The expectation in Munich is always high, this expectation I have towards myself personally and to my players. I was aware of that when I signed with Bayern.

For us, there is no such thing as failure. You can't miss a deadline; you can't come up short on an assignment. You have to perform, period.

I do have high standards, but I don't expect anything from anyone that I don't expect from myself.

He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

I hope I can live up to the faith that has been put in me to do a good job.

Everything I put my name to and take part in, I want to be good. That's not saying it will always happen. But I want to make bold choices.

But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.

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

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

The one thing you can't do when you're highly ranked is relax.

I'm pretty demanding with myself and my work, and I always put a lot of pressure on myself. I try to do the best job I can every time.