Mel Lastman Quotes

It's too easy to blame other people in football.

I think that fans are always looking for someone to blame. Wouldn't it be nice if they looked in the mirror?

A lot of the mistakes I made were my fault.

I am happy to take the blame sometimes for a goal conceded if I felt I could do better.

I behaved worse than anybody for 15 years, and you have to pay the price for that. I used to blame other people, then therapy made me realise I had to change.

I am ready to accept all accusations, allegations, anger - but I have to succeed.

It's not how you play the game, it's how you place the blame.

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

I'm crazy about Grant: his character, his nature, his science in fighting and everything else. But I don't like the idea that he never accepted the blame for anything, always found someone else to blame for any mistake that was ever made, including blaming Prentiss for Shiloh.

As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in the habit of freely imputing errors to my fellow-men.

I must give an account for what I've done.

I have always been willing to take the blame for the things I have done.

I don't like the blame game, though.

I blame myself more so because I hung a curve. If you want to point a finger, point it at me.

The break with and the rejection of Europe, decisive in the making of the American people, did not take place in Canada. In the formative period of Canadian history the immigrant's arrival in North America represented not a rejection of Europe and its values but an affirmation of them. This is the deepest and most meaningful difference between Canada and the United States.

You ask me why I air your dirty laundry, but you do not ask yourself why you soil it to begin with.

When we own up our mistakes some people interpret it as if we are wrong. They too commit mistakes.

The government and the Party are always blaming the comrades doing local work but never themselves, always seeing their own achievements but never their own shortcomings, and always welcoming flattery but never criticism....

America's militarized brand of malignant exceptionalism is founded on the idea that the United States transcends history.

I feel that if I absolve myself and say it was the Astros' fault I was bad in Game 7, in the World Series, I can't develop as a person.

I know the Chargers made mistakes, but I made a bunch of mistakes myself, and I've got to take responsibility for that.

You cannot always blame others if things go wrong.

You'll never get ahead by blaming your problems on other people.

America is not what's wrong with the world.

Be your own worst critic. When things go wrong it's tempting to shift the blame. Don't. Accept responsibility. People will appreciate it, and you will find out what you're capable of.