Mark Messier Quotes

I took responsibility in Munich from the beginning. But I could not walk in with splayed elbows into the club and say, 'Here comes the Schalke captain.'

You can't pee like a puppy if you wanna run with the big dogs.

It doesn't bother me what division I am managing in.

I do what I'm coached to do. That's part of being a team leader and captain. The job will change week in and week out, and it's not for you to question what your job is - it's to go out there and execute your assignments.

Someone in the England team will have to grab the ball by the horns.

Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.

I do tend to be a leader in situations in my own life.

I think women are used to stepping up and getting the job done when you need to.

Directing your first film is like showing up to the field trip in seventh grade, getting on the bus, and making an announcement, 'So today I'm driving the bus.' And everybody's like, 'What?' And you're like, 'I'm gonna drive the bus.' And they're like, 'But you don't know how to drive the bus.'

I've always been a leader my whole life. I've always led. I didn't know how to do anything else.

I'm the type of guy that likes to lead by example.

Denny Hastert said “the buck stops here” because he couldn’t find anyone else to pass it to.

Leadership is not what you said on the Senate floor. It’s not what you’ve said. It’s what you’ve done.

When I am captaining a side, the way I play would be the way my team plays as well. If I will be joking around all the time, I wouldn't expect people to take me seriously.

I will do what my team wants me to do and justify my place in the side.

I feel that if the situation arises when the skipper hands me the ball, I should be confident that I can do the job, and only then will that translate into performance.

I miss being the focal point of the team - the guy everyone looks to for decisions. And guidance.

I don't care whether I play on the right or in the centre. All I want is for the coach to have faith in me.

My preparation doesn't change from being a backup to a starter.

I don't put the pressure on everybody else. I put the pressure on myself because I am that franchise guy. I am the guy that has to be the leader of the team, that has to get everybody better, make everybody better on my team.

When you lead, you have to lead from the front.

I kind of like to think I can do everything decently well. It's just putting me in position to be a playmaker, blocking, special teams, no matter what it may be. Whenever I go out there, I'm going to do my best.

I wanted to stay home and go to Maryland because I'm really the man of my house. We lost our father when I was 14. Somebody had to be there, so I had to take it and put that on my shoulders.

I think as an older player, there's a kind of natural responsibility or natural role to go around the lads and say a few things. I had it when I came into the team; when you look to the older boys in certain situations to see what they say, see how they act, and see what they expect.

I was a team captain, I was the guy for the first couple years. And then all of the sudden I was just the backup. It wasn't easy. I think it would be easy to bow my head and feel sorry for myself, but I knew as a captain I had to be a great teammate.