Sol Campbell Quotes

Xavier McDaniel made me respect him. I thought I could do anything I wanted to. He grabbed me one time and almost choked me out. He said, 'You're going to do this. You're going to go get coffee. You're going to go get doughnuts.' It's a game of respect.

I tell people what to do, and so what? I am more qualified than the other board members, so my advice means more.

If a man means to be hard, let him keep in his saddle and speak from that height, above the level of pleading eyes, and with the command of a distant horizon.

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

When you have real power you don't threaten. People know what your capabilities are.

To some people, power is a noun. To others, it's a verb.

If people think I'm angry, I don't want to burst anybody's bubble. I like sometimes for people to be afraid of me. But it's not really anger; it's discipline.

'Because I said so!' They are the most underrated four words.

I like power and I like to use it.

Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

In order to be a lieutenant, you've got to have authority in your voice. No matter how young your face looks, you've got to let your guys know that you're in charge.

He who demands does not command.

Let them hate as long as they fear.

You are the President. You tell them to go to hell.

I do understand power, whatever else may be said about me. I know where to look for it and how to use it.

His essence was force ... the relish of power, and command.

For me, power was never an attraction.

Power in itself has never attracted me, nor has position been my goal.

When I was a teacher, I'd walk into the classroom. I stood at the board. I was the man. I directed operations. I was an intellectual and artistic and moral traffic cop, and I - and I would direct the class, most of the time.

I think, at heart, I'm a leader.

There was a reason they called me 'the female boss' in N-Dubz - I did all the talking.

Gazzy: "Captain, like the captain of a ship. And then Terror, you know, T-E-R-O-R.

I am sir Oracle, and when I ope my lips, let no dog bark.