Quotes About Mentors

Children need models more than they need critics.

Children need models rather than critics.

It's a must to continually stay alert and aware because ideas come from everywhere. And beyond relying on your fine-tuned radar to pick up on the next inspiration, consider seeking mentors.

I never really idolized any one golfer.

You can only learn from the best players out there, the best people, best idols, role models, whatever you want to call them.

I have good idols and I definitely look up to good people.

I don't have any idols, any heroes, nothing, no.

It's cool for young guys to see what their idols are doing.

I think we all grow up with idols and things like that.

Listen to the works of your idols, not your teachers.

My idols are not in tennis.

Teachers have been some of the most important people in my career.

There are always people you can turn to for help and advice. Former coaches, people I used to play with in Belgium and in England. It is good to have people you can look to for support, but in the end you are out on the pitch on your own and you have to come through it for yourself.

We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.

It took me a few years to explain to my colleagues and my mentors and the people that I looked up to and I wrestled that I'm not in wrestling anymore. I'm in sports entertainment. Pro' wrestling doesn't mean that we're saying we're a step up above amateur wrestling, because there's nothing above Olympic wrestling.

As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.

When I was writing 'House Of Suns,' there were a few writers I had in mind as role models, the main being Gene Wolfe.

I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.

Seek out and embrace people who challenge you. You will learn more from them than from the folks who hold you to lower standards.

There were some older guitarists on my side of town, and I got to know many of them.

It's often said that you're the product of the five people you spend the most time with. If you allow even one of those five people to be toxic, you'll soon find out how capable he or she is of holding you back.

There are guys I'd love to learn from, but they wouldn't be a good fit for me, so I read their blogs and books.

I started with Bobby Darin. He signed me to Capitol when I was 15. I was 14, getting ready to be 15. Then the next encounter I had was with I think Peggy Lee. I sang background with The Blossoms with Darlene Love.

Obviously you do get influenced by former managers. That's normal. You try to build your own coaching philosophies. I've played for Arrigo Saachi, Dino Zoff, Zdenek Zeman, Gullit, Vialli and Ranieri.