Pedro Martinez Quotes

One day I realized that I wasn't getting anywhere by blaming other people for my circumstances. I finally understood: Even if you feel someone has wronged you or owes you something, no one is going to give you anything for free.

While I have made errors that I deeply regret, I have never, ever done so with the intent of subverting the law or of benefiting myself.

You've got to take responsibility for your own actions. We all know people who reach rock bottom. However much that they're told that what they're doing is harming their own life or whatever, you cannot make someone do it unless that person reaches the point where they know that they have to deal with it themselves.

I recognize I have faults. I'm accountable for them, and I try to do what I can to correct them. I will say that it's unfortunate that everything I do is scrutinized to the point that it is. Frankly, I don't watch the news, I stay away from political conversations.

There's no excuse, it's just an opportunity that presented in a limited way and that happened and as soon as the press rang me I didn't deny it I just said 'that's it' and I had to go home and explain it.

So after a while, if people won't accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

It was my decision, and I blew it, but I’m not about to say that I blew it.

Whenever you do a thing, tho' it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you and act accordingly.

I don't believe in luck. Everything is our doing or undoing. If something doesn't come out right, then as a director, you have to take full responsibility. You can't just say, 'No, I gave this job to the music supervisor. They promised me they would do it, and they didn't do it.' You can't blame anyone else.

I'm not the kind of guy who will blame other people if things don't work out.

I don't do the victim mode. I don't do blame. I can't bear that.

I hate using excuses, I hate doing excuses.

Take responsiblilty for yourself because no one's going to take responsibility for you.

If you want things to be right, you have to do them yourself

Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis.

To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.

If I have made a mistake in the design, then I'm the one who should pay for it. I certainly would not ask somebody else to fly a plane if I were afraid to do it myself.

The fighter (like the writer) must stand alone. If he loses he cannot call an executive conference and throw off on a vice president or the assistant sales manager. He is consequently resented by fractional characters who cannot live outside an organization.

You would not want to be responsible for someone else's happiness, so please do not hold someone else responsible for yours!

Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak.

Authority never matches responsibility. That's one of the great myths and delusions of all times. Winning managers and individual performers at all levels know that effectiveness means building your own network and creating your own authority. Those who succeed always reach far beyond formal deputation, take initiatives, and take the heat when things go awry. That's true in the military in times of war, true for 200 person manufacturing firms, and true at giant automakers or software companies.

I call myself out on my mistakes, but in telling the truth, sometimes it stings a little.

There is no safe political refuge for those afraid to take responsibility for their own lives.

Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.