Earl Monroe Quotes

There is a place in the world for anyone in the world who says, "I'll take care of it."

My role isn't just receiving.

It's one of the things, certainly for me, anyway: I'm learning to take a bigger role in the things that I'm associated with.

I promise I will get up every day, determined to make a difference... I am ready to serve.

Leaders always step up, regardless of the circumstances.

Decisions are made by those who show up.

If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must be done, he must suggest the something. The unpardonable sin is to propose nothing, when action is imperative.

We will not spend four years blaming others, we will take responsibility.

I am one of those people who quite enjoys responsibility.

I think it is important for people who are given leadership roles to assume that role immediately.

We will not duck the tough issues, we will lead.

We have a crisis in confidence because we have an absence of leadership.

We don’t have a problem of leadership. We have a problem of followership.

Whoever can, should.

That's the true meaning of being a leader: being able to deal with the consequences and take the responsibility for it. That's who I want to be.

I've always said my shoulders are broad, and I can take on that extra responsibility. I love it. I want it. I prefer to take it on myself to help the other guys, who can then go out and play with their heads clear and calm.

If you can inculcate in your team that every moment means everything, you can then step back to let them lead.

I've never been in charge. I'm just a lazy bastard.

The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.

If not me- who?, If not now- when?

I like to always lead from the front and set an example for whoever is playing with me or around me. I like taking responsibilities. That is my natural thing.

I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. That's what I try to do.

Usually, the leaders appear in the moment of the highest stress, when it is time, speaking symbolically, to go to the barricades. Then people, clever, capable, but focused on their own tasks, will leave their immediate occupations and go to the barricades, because there is nowhere to hide.

You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

Great presidents, and even those not so great, never complained about the hands they were dealt. Just the opposite. They assumed they were in the big chair to meet big challenges, no matter how difficult.