Nick Hornby Quotes

When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.

It's not easy to just say you don't want to do something any more.

I've been involved with great scripts and so-so leadership, and it's clear to me that leadership is the most compelling factor.

I think that the test for taking on a project is to try and list all the reasons not to do it. When you find yourself running out of reasons, and you still have to do it, it's the right thing to do.

I'd like to think I am a good coach but I've called bad plays. I've coached bad practices. I've made bad substitution choices.

What to ourselves in passion we propose, The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.

I'm ready to accept the pressures of captaincy.

As captain you're involved immensely. You get worked up, you get carried away. It slowly dies down once you're a player. You realise you've to take the back seat.

Throughout my career I have always done everything with passion.

I think there's some certain attitudes and certain guys that can feed some positive energy, and that keeps you going through an 82-game schedule.

All 15 guys on every team want to play all 48 minutes. It's just kind of the way that every season goes.

Find your passion, set a goal, go to work, evaluate, reassess, and repeat.

I was always the captain of every club I played for, so I would expect to be somebody who put themselves forward.

If my teammates are out there to hoop, I'm going. I see the way these guys prepare for games. How can you not want to go be a part of that?

The art of leadership is not to spend your time measuring, evaluating. It's all about selecting the person. And if you believe you selected the right person, then you give that person the freedom, the authority, the delegation to innovate and to lead with some very simple measure.

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now.

It's not can you, it's will you

You have to have an emotional investment in what you're doing. If you don't love what you're doing, failure is pretty much guaranteed.

The difference between those who are committed and those who are not is the difference between the words want and will.

Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.

Once we decide we have to do something, we can go miles ahead.

The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.

The one who cares the most wins. ... That's how I knew I'd end up with everyone else waving the white flags and not me. That's how I knew I'd be the last person standing when it was all over. ... I cared the most.

REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.

I've always thought it was about finding the right person. But it's about choosing the right person, isn't it?