Jason Giambi Quotes

No matter who is watching or paying the paycheck, we are ultimately each our own boss.

You must manage yourself before you can lead someone else.

I think there are huge lessons there, for young people who are getting started in life, as well as other people. And that is, to take responsibility for your own life. Only you are responsible for the course you take from there.

A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.

I like people who take responsibility for their lives.

It was a question of helping a man prepare in the way that suits him best. The theory is if you give a man responsibility for his own actions, then it is up to him to accept that responsibility.

I take full responsibility for my life and my career.

That person has to be accountable for himself. I think that's what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone else's life.

Only a fool manages himself.

Ultimately, I play for myself, and I take responsibility for my own actions.

One of the first things successful people realize is the old adage, “If it is to be, it is up to me.” That is, for you, the fact that your success and your course is up to you. This doesn’t mean that you do it all alone. It simply means that you take responsibility for your life and your career.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

I have to do things for myself, and if those standards are set high, then it's up to me to pass or fail.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.

I've always been my own hitting coach.

Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.

I think I'm mostly looking forward to the college life. I'm looking forward to more freedom. Here everything is really structured and scheduled, but in college you've got to be more responsible and you can get things done on your own time. I'm really looking forward to that.

More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man - he - himself.

I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'

I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

It's absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.

The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.