Callum Smith Quotes

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

There are two kinds of power you have to fight. The first is the money, and that's just our system. The other is the people close around you, knowing when to accept their criticism, knowing when to say no.

I'll look and pick the best, and the one who can do the best job for the party.

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. Hey, it made me a better leader: you have to take a lot of people's needs into account; you have to look down the road. Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.

I know how to make decisions and stand up to the criticism every day.

I was having an argument with my stepfather, and he was like, 'Why don't you join the Marine Corps?' And I was like, 'Noooo! Well, maybe, actually... ' I went and saw the recruiter, who was like, 'Are you on the run from the cops? Because we've never had someone want to leave so fast.'

In any leadership position, you're always going to be disappointing somebody.

President Obama's biggest weakness is weakness.

In this job, you're going to make decisions. You'll say things that some people are going to love them, some people are going to hate them. It's just part of the job.

I feel very confident that that information should be sufficient for the members of the Senate to make an informed decision about John Roberts' qualifications.

When I was 14, I played in a summer league. One night the chief umpire asked me if I would like to try umpiring. There was a Little League tournament coming up and he needed more umpires than he had.

Politics is like football ... Sometimes you have to punt.

Every team has to have a quarterback. You can't have two quarterbacks.

He will also find that the high and independent spirit, which usually dwells in the breast of those who are deeply versed in scientific pursuits, is ill adapted for administrative appointments; and that even if successful, he must hear many things he disapproves, and raise no voice against them.

… temperament is your basic orientation toward life. The Elizabethans boiled it down to four types: You were choleric or sanguine or melancholy or aggressive. You can be a good leader from any of them. Lincoln was melancholy, but what a president! It’s more to do with how you grow, how you learn from your mistakes.

I find being a manager really challenging. For instance, I don't enjoy some of the administrative tasks that go along with hiring and firing.

Just because you have opposition doesn't make you a great leader.

I probably should have had a little more tolerance with Jimmy Johnson. Seriously.

Leaders don't change their positions mid-debate. They welcome scorn from the masses because it creates the opportunity for dialogue.

I've never really hired anybody that people thought I should hire.

There are many coaches who talk about referees every day.

I have to take criticisms, and I will continue to take them for what I think is best for the team.

Being chief selector has been the most challenging role of my cricket career, as I was heavily criticised for my decisions, and I couldn't respond much.

It's football, you work with humans and humans make mistakes. We will do everything in our power to prepare the players so they know to make the right decision at the right times.

When I came into politics, I remember reading these scorecards of my performance, and I would routinely have these comments about not being assertive enough.