Ryne Sandberg Quotes

I don't always do what I should but I do what I gotta do.

Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.

In life, you get one choice over and over again. That is to take conditions as they are or take responsibility for changing them.

In terms of my career, I am glad about the steps and moves that I have made. Because I would not want to blame anyone else but myself if anything goes wrong.

I eventually realized that good things wouldn't happen to me if I didn't make the right choices.

I guess when somebody offers you a movie, you don't say no. That's what I've learned.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

Freedom is not safety but opportunity.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.

Nine times out of 10, extenuating circumstances aside, I believe that people are where they are by some kind of choice on their part. You need to acknowledge that, 'Hey, I'm here because I steered my horse in this direction.'

You control what you can control.

I always say to the players, 'You can either create or wait.' If you're waiting, you're relying on someone else, as simple as that. But if you create it, you've got to do it.

I knew I wanted to do music, but leaving such a successful career one would think I'd kind of shot myself in the foot. I knew I made the right decision, and at the end of the day it's up to me to get where I want to go, but it's a lot to take on.

For the title, if they say, 'Ok, let's sit and wait,' I will sit and wait because I know it's a once in a lifetime opportunity.

Everybody will have their things to say about what I can or can't do. At the end of the day, I'm the one who has to put on the jersey and play.

You've got to live and die by your decisions.

I never really sat down and decided, 'And now this is what I'm going to do.' I just do it.

There is nothing wrong with underlining personal agency, but there is something unfair about using personal responsibility as a basis for assigning blame while simultaneously denying those who are being blamed the opportunity to exert agency in their lives

Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgement and nothing can help you escape it - that no substitute can do your thinking, as no pinch-hitter can live your life.

If I stay. If I live. It's up to me.

I think we make our own luck. Our parents give us life, but what we do with that life is our own responsibility.

I make all my own decisions and I take full responsibility.

I could sit around and cry about losing jobs because I'm not a TV star, or I could go and take something into my own hands and try to make it in this world, too.

No one will improve your lot if you do not yourself.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.