Quotes About Mentoring

What matters about people is their magnetic leadership, their aptitude for helping those following in their footsteps, and their passion - how they choose to package that is their prerogative.

I deal with guys in their 20s and early 30s who are presidents of companies, who are movie directors.

When I was a player, all the pressures I felt created a lot of anxiety in me. I didn't know how to manage that on my own. I think I was missing someone - a manager, no doubt - who could teach me to control my emotions.

You ask yourself, 'What do you want your legacy to be?' I'm content at this point to say, 'Those who follow me.' Romeo Crennel, Bill Belichick, Sean Payton, to name a few. I think I've got a pretty good group, so far.

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

Coaching is what I love to do, and I think I'm pretty good at it.

The way NXT has been from day one when I was asked to do it, 'Don't put me on camera. I do not need to be on camera unless it's absolutely necessary. This isn't about me, it's about the talent,' and everyone that works in NXT, that's what we think.

Martin O'Neill has definitely got the best out of me.

I can't see why people call me a bad influence. I meet a lot of kids who are into music. I spend as much time as I can with them. I listen to their demos, and I'm encouraging.

So I don't really believe that how many years you've had in the league determines how well your players play... Coaching is coaching.

I want to be known as someone who develops individuals, not just companies.

I had some major league help. Andrew Dice Clay and Robert Townsend were there for me.

With every task you think, 'What did I do wrong there? What could I do better?' That's why I've spent my life gravitating towards people who can show me how to improve.

I believe that teaching is one of the most noble professions and it's no easy task to shape the minds of the next generation.

One of the main tasks of a manager is psychology.

I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know.

My grandson Sam Saunders has been playing golf since he could hold a club and I spent a lot of time with him over the years. Like my father taught me, I showed him the fundamentals of the game and helped him make adjustments as he and his game matured over the years.

Bob Rock taught me a lot. His friendship has taught me a lot about what you should expect from a recording session and, more importantly, how you shouldn't expect anything less than absolute joyousness. You should feel great. You should feel 14 to be doing it. It's true and it's rare.

Some of the guys that can teach you the best never really made it just because they couldn't execute it themselves, but they can tell everybody else the reasons why everybody else made it and show you how. It's just hard to find those people.

We can teach people how to run a Chipotle.

It takes a lot of energy to teach.

When I started out in life I wanted to teach.

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.