Tommy Lasorda Quotes

It was a bit of a surprise when the national captaincy came my way.

I'm very thrilled and excited to have been given the opportunity to captain England.

I am very proud to represent my country and the honour of being captain.

Being the captain is a great privilege and a responsibility to lead a great group with different cultures.

It's a huge privilege to be named England Twenty20 captain and form part of a leadership team that I've no doubt will work well together with a great deal of synergy.

Being Bayern captain feels good and I think it's logical a player from Munich should lead FC Bayern on to the pitch.

When you are captain, you are never speaking for yourself.

It's a tremendous honor. It really is a privilege, not just a right. You're in the NFL and you wear the shield now. It means the world to me; it really is a special feeling, and my family's gotten a real kick out of it.

It's been a great privilege to serve the people of Pennsylvania.

It's a fantastic responsibility and a wonderful moment.

I pinch myself because of the understanding that I've been blessed with a real rare opportunity that few Americans ever get - to serve their government and their people at this level.

To be a Miss Universe is both an honor and responsibility.

I obviously respect the opportunity I have got to play for the country.

I take the role of leadership as the most important job I have. Yes, it's the passes and all the different things you have to do, but it's leading and it's in the huddle and it's in the weight room and the meeting rooms. It's that role I think comes first.

Playing in the NFL, it's a privilege, it's not a right.

My role is the same with or without the armband.

It's obvious that I'd like to keep the captain's armband. The job gives me a great deal of enjoyment. Why should I then give it up by choice?

I was in charge of the music in every team I played for, and that is a huge responsibility, believe me!

I don't see it as pressure at all. I see it as such an honor to just in some sort of way represent Puerto Rico and Hispanics and all the girls out there.

I mean, as a coach, as a leader of an organization, you represent your fan base and everybody that works and all that, and that's passion.

The main thing about being captain is keeping your own performance good, and then everything else should fall into place off the back of that.

I can't believe that I'm sitting in meetings with Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, and Annette Bening. I want to take on that responsibility to represent all the Rogers out there who don't have a seat at the table. People of colour were not at the table, and now I am there, I want to change things.

It's not easy to carry forward the national team because you have a whole country behind you. But I would be willing to take charge of the Argentina national team.

I have really enjoyed the responsibility of leading the team and making the decisions out there.

Me being young, I'm going to definitely mess up a lot more than I'm going to make the right play, but I want my teammates to be able to trust me and look at me as a veteran guard trying to run the team.