40 Quotes About Assertive

The aggressive person fights. The passive one runs away. But the assertive person stands ground, assesses the situation, adapts, and acts with purpose and passion. Be that person.

Coach is more assertive than he's ever been. He's taking charge. He's making sure everything is in control. ... He's not leaving anything unchecked.

If the police in 1997 had been pulled back from the assertive policing, the community-based policing could have reduced crime and disorder and improved race relations. Instead we have the situations we find ourselves in now.

Rudy needs to be more assertive. He's an incredibly talented kid, but he's a young kid. Today he was assertive and made his moves. At times today he was unstoppable.

I don't think we were complacent, I don't think that we got the start that we had wanted. We weren't very good on a couple of shifts. We took lazy penalties tonight. We weren't assertive enough when we went to battle.

The type of kid we recruit is one who can be assertive and enjoys stricter regimentation. It's also a kid who is looking to put in extra time to really help out.

Most teams we play are quicker than we are. So we've got to make sure that we're really assertive as far as taking that first step to the loose ball, taking that first step to the basketball. Those types of things are what we have to do to be successful, and tonight we did that.

The second half was better than first half. We were down by as many as 20 points. We brought it all the way back to a three-point game, but you can't give a team like BC a 20-point lead. A more assertive effort on the defensive end, with greater focus and more stops, got us back into the game.

Classical did an excellent job. They were more assertive on offense then we were. I was happy that our team played hard to the end. But, we have to do a better job on defense. We picked up a lot of fouls because we weren't moving our feet.