Jonathan Nolan Quotes

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.

If the manager selects me to play, I will always give everything I can.

Give someone responsibility and they will do their best. Make them accountable and they will do even better.

When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.

Work hard and never make excuses.

People who make mistakes but try their best, other people will support. But people who make mistakes because they're lazy, nobody supports.

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.

The most important thing is to just do it. If I work at a higher level I have responsibility to do better than what I've done before. Sometimes the best happens - beyond possibility. Just do it. Can't worry about it.

My principal at RADA once told me, 'You'll know you're a professional when you don't feel like doing it but you have to do it.'

Players have responsibility, and if they don't do their job, certain things happen. Coaches have responsibility. If they don't do their job, things happen.

Sometimes you gotta do things that you don't really want to do. But you don't do them for money.

An award means a lot to me. It brings happiness along with a kind of fear. It brings fear because the award is the responsibility which audiences have put on us. So a singer winning an award should always try to give best of him to the audiences.

I like my players to be married and in debt. That's the way you motivate them.

Discipline, work. Work, discipline.

I have to watch out for being lazy.

But as coaches, we need to get a little more fire and passion and be more demanding that our guys get the job done. I think players will respond to that, and we'll see.

There was no question that in our house doing well, doing it the right way, school, sports - there was an expectation. One of the things I've taken away from that is that I'm unafraid to expect a fair amount from people. It makes them so much better - you're doing them a disservice if you don't.

I think half of what a trainer does is make you feel shame if you don't show up.

May the spirit of devotion to duty which inspires us always dominate this Committee's conferences!

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why don't you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a rage? It is not that you cannot do it but that you don't want to do it.

Most of us don't mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn't interfere with what we want to do, but it takes discipline and maturity to do what we ought to do whether we want to or not.