Quotes About Influence

I think all coaches look at it as a major part of our job: to build young men, not just ball players. To put the right things in front of them, and help them mature as men, not just as players.

I love coaching and not just coaching because it's about winning football games, but coaching because you have an opportunity to impact young men and people and that's what I want to do.

When I got in this profession, as a young guy, as a college coach at San Jose State, I knew right then that I had a passion to do this, to touch people's lives, to develop young men in the game of football.

Young people need models, not critics.

That reasonably intelligent and well-meaning young people are willing to call white black is a matter of concern. It raises questions about our ways of education and about the values that guide our conduct.

When young people are powerful, our Party and People's Army are powerful, and there is nothing for us to be afraid of.

The political process does not end on Election Day. Young people need to stay involved in the process by continuing to pay attention to the conversation and holding their leaders accountable for the decisions they make.

Sport is something that is very inspirational for young people.

I'd like to be remembered as someone who made a difference in the lives of young people - that I nurtured someone and taught them to pursue their dreams and their careers, to leave a legacy.

For many my behavior has been a major disappointment, my behavior has caused considerable worry to my business partners, and everyone involved in my business, but most importantly to the young people we influence, I apologize.

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.

As an educator myself, I understand the profound effect that good teachers and a quality education have on the lives of our young people.

When you're put in a position to really affect young people who are going to run the world one day, if you're able to be in their life at a young age and make a positive impact, I think that's a beautiful thing.

Many young people don't know what Versace represent. I want to show what makes Versace an iconic brand.

I love spending time with young people. I love to hear about what they think. It keeps me young. And they need role models.

We're trying to challenge the gangs, not by repression, but by competing to get the young people to our side.

For most, the school is the first model of a community, and it can be a very powerful one. We need to ensure that young people are raised in educational communities that they admire and that they will seek to emulate or re-create for the rest of their lives.

When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?

My favorite thing is that young people are having 'Stranger Things' parties and binge-watching it. Hopefully, it leads them to go back and discover some of these movies and folks who inspired us so much.

When I talk about the Internet, it's because young people are there. TV and radio are still what moves the masses, and you can't ignore that. But you also have to feed that monster that grows daily, which is the Internet.

Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

Many people, especially young people, have started listening to sitar since George Harrison, one of the Beatles, became my disciple.

I hope that young people will also look to politics as a vehicle to not only have their voices heard, but actually to be the change makers that they want to see. They are disaffected, understandably, but I hope that young people will not only turn out to vote but also run for office.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don't think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.