Coco Martin Quotes

You must understand the difference between being an architect and a politician. Architecture is a profession of perseverance. You have to come through. The politician is there to blame someone.

It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.

When you are captain, you are never speaking for yourself.

You've got to coach worrying about your entire team: whether that gets you a championship or whether that gets you fired. I think it allows you to coach free. You're coaching with freedom because you know you're doing what you think is right.

When you sign your name on the dotted line, it's more than just playing baseball. You have a responsibility to make good decisions and show people how things are supposed to be done.

I think that shows a level of maturity and understanding that I think bodes well for getting to the bottom of this. But it is really up to you and your staff, on behalf of the American people, to take on that challenge.

I think there's nothing that's not important. Everything you do - from how you connect with the guys in the locker room, to how you learn, to how you play on the field - everything's important; everything goes with the position.

I have zero tolerance for people who don't come completely prepared. I expect contribution, I expect attendance, and I expect directors to take trips and visit the company's programs.

You can't serve on every committee. But you can know what happened, what the debate was, who said what.

When you supervise something, it is one thing. When you are in the middle of something, there is a different pace of life.

Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power.

Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP.

I think our leadership team is a highly accountable leadership team.

When you're the director, you kinda do all the work.

I use that as my responsibility on the show, to be the pragmatist.

You never want to be the director who dropped the ball, you know?

Managing can be more discouraging than playing, especially when you're losing because when you're a player, there are at least individual goals you can shoot for. When you're a manager all the worries of the team become your worries.

I don't think I have the demeanor to be a politician. I'm used to making decisions and to a certain extent being in charge.

I definitely see myself as a leader. One of the ways I've been lucky enough to lead and likely to continue to lead is just my actions and the way that I approach the game and working hard and being a player that steps up in big-time situations when plays need to be made.

Between an uncontrolled escalation and passivity, there is a demanding road of responsibility that we must follow.

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

Governing is hard. If you’re in the majority, you’ve got to do the hard work of governing

Politics is about accountability, it is about leadership, it is about courage.

Democratic government consists of listening, deciding, persuading.