Lenny Wilkens Quotes

If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions then you are forever chained to a position of defense.

I learned in an extremely hard way that the accountability falls with me.

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.

There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.

Being responsible, I will direct, and will be responsible for nothing that I do not direct.

It's not my style to blame anybody else.

Coach Boeheim, he's really not like a lot of coaches. We don't do shoot-arounds, we don't have curfews. So I think he teaches you how to be a man and how to be responsible for yourself.

Everybody is responsible for their own actions. It's easy to point the finger at somebody else, but a real man, a real woman, a real person knows when it's time to take the blame and when to take responsibility for their own actions.

Sometimes you've got to just dig down deep and be accountable for the role that you have on the team.

I can only control what I can control. I can't control plays called for me.

One thing I realized, I was making too many excuses and not taking responsibility for how I was playing.

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

No excuses. No explanations.

You've got to take responsibility and to do everything in your power to get results. Hopefully players look at that and try and follow it.

Stand up, be bold, and take the blame on your own shoulders. Do not go about throwing mud at others; for all the faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause.

No excuses; those were just weak.

It's easy to blame other people when things aren't going well.

The most important words that have helped me in life, when things have gone right or when things have gone wrong are 'accept responsibility.'

There's responsibility, but there's also accountability. You have to be accountable for your actions. You have to stand at your locker when things are going bad.

In football, it's the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?

I have impeached myself by resigning.

I take complete and sole responsibility for my present situation.