Jack L. Warner Quotes

I've never been a 'yes person.'

I've always had trouble with authority.

… a controlled disrespect for authority is essential to a scientist.

I'm not a yes person, whether it's about a tie choice or a joke.

I'm proud to say I've never been anybody's lapdog.

Whenever possible, I operate outside the system.

I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her.

I understand it's difficult but you've got to think about yourself, you know, and not just follow the crowd.

I've never been a yes man.

People aren't hiring me to be a 'yes' man. They have their girlfriends for that.

I'm a team player. But I will say that I've never been a 'yes man' in my life.

It's really important to stand up for yourself and not always agree with what people say if indeed you don't feel that that's true.

But I think anybody who believes I could force coach Sloan to resign is crazy. He's stronger than that and personally if I said that to him, he'd probably go tell me to go do something.

If I hear someone say something, and they're 100 per cent about it, then it's almost inevitable that I'll take the opposite view. I guess I feel at odds with things like society. Absolutism is always a trigger for me.

I can have someone tell me to do stuff all the time every day, and if I don't want to do it, I ain't gonna do it.

I spent a lot of my career fighting coaches. When coaches told me don't shoot, I'd shoot anyway.

I'm not going to kiss any rings from anybody.

I'm a businessman, a company man, but I'm no 'yes' man.

It seems that Gerard Houllier did not appreciate my personality. It bothers him to have someone around who could stand up to him.

Dissent is difficult. It can constitute a real dilemma for the person who disagrees.

There are always more people to prove wrong.

It's natural to want to rebel against what your parents do.

I do what I want to do instead of what other people think I should do, and I'm kind of stubborn that way.

I refused then like I do now to let anybody tie me down

I always wanted to be different and do things differently. I was a pain in the neck. I was challenging everything you wanted me to do and challenging people in school.