Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aretha Franklin

Trying to grow up is hurting. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't, it hurts even more.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

I came out to beat everybody in sight, and that's just what I'm going to do.

Babe Ruth

The most important thing that a young athlete must do it pick the right sport. Not one that they like just a little bit, but one that they love. Because,if they don't really love their sport, they won't work as hard as they should. Me? I loved to hit.

Babe Ruth

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Babe Ruth

A part of control is learning to correct your own weaknesses. The person doesn't live who was born with everything. Sometimes he has one weak point, generally he has several. The first thing is to know your faults. And then take on a systematic plan of correcting them. You know the old saying about a chain only being as strong as its weakest link. The same can be said in the chain of skills a man forges.

Ashwin Sanghi

Character is what you are. Reputation is what people think you are.

Barbara Mikulski

Leadership is creating a state of mind in others. The difference between being a leader and manager, all due respect to managers, is that leaders have to create states of mind. But a leader, first of all, has to have a clear state of mind, which is usually her own vision, which energizes her, motivates others, and then creates that state of mind in others.

Barbara Sher

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.

Barbara Sher

Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.

John Thompson

Lenny's three was huge. It was a four-point lead at that point and we hadn't scored in awhile.

Bill Cunningham

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Leadership is what it's all about. It's got to come from somewhere.

Leadership is more ? if not much more ? influence, rather than position.

Arun Sarin

Leadership is experiential... it's really a trained art.

Leadership in the commando positions has been turned over to Badr. And new recruits are mostly Badr.

Leadership has always been something this team has leaned on. So the seniors had to step up this year.

Leadership and the six returning starters will be strong points for us this season.

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Charles Dickens

Lead on! said Scrooge. ""Lead on! The night is waning fast, and it is precious time to me, I know. Lead on, Spirit!

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Sentiment is still robust, though profit-taking after the recent rally may lead to volatile trade.

Sellers may lead the market lower at the opening.

She took on more of a leadership role as a senior. She was a quiet kid, not very talkative in the past, who led by example. This year she was more vocal. As she matured she was more comfortable speaking out.

She was the leader of my team this year.

She's probably our team leader. She's really the motivational leader of our team.

She's a winner. And she's got what it takes to lead us to a championship.

Dennis Hastert

President Reagan was a leader at a time when the American people most needed leadership. He outlined a vision that captured the imagination of the free world, a vision that toppled the Communist empire and freed countless millions.

Dee Dee Myers

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't.

Dean Smith

You can't teach court savvy

Digger Phelps

A few mistakes don't worry me; what worries me is when you make the mistakes and then forget your role on the team and start to worry about your ego.

Eleanor Roosevelt

No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.

Elbert Hubbard

The weaknesses of the many make the leader possible.

Elbert Hubbard

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.