Quotes About Mentoring

I am here just to learn, to improve, to help my team improve.

I don't want a brat on my team.

As a player, you model yourself after other players. Kobe takes the same approach as Michael Jordan. But I follow someone like Magic Johnson; he showed emotion, he smiled and jumped around, he was happy for his teammates. There needs to be more players like that.

Awakening goes beyond coaching, teaching, mentoring and sponsorship to include the level of vision, mission and spirit.

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.

Ukažte mi nedbale krojovaný oddíl a já "vypátrám", že ani jeho v?dce nemá kroj v po?ádku. Myslete na to, až se budete do kroje oblékat! Dáváte svým chlapc?m p?íklad a pokud budete mít kroj p?kn? upravený, od- razí se to i na vašich skautech.

I told you those two stories because they describe two very different kinds of mentoring, neither of which are the kind that the word usually implies. In the first case I learned from the authors of a very well-written manual. In the second case I learned by observing people who were actively trying to ignore me. In both cases the knowledge gained was profound and foundational.

When One Teaches, Two Learn

Intelligent people are those who work with or hire a person who is more intelligent than they are.

If you want to learn about money, teach it to someone else.

He was grooming Mike and me. That

Young things mainly belong to themselves. How they grow up depends on who gets attached to them.

The greatest engineering is the engineering of men.

Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the crème de la crème. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

We have a tendency to measure ourselves against the people around us. They become our point of reference. A good coach will evaluate your performance against your potential. …if we are wise enough to listen, they will help us go further, faster.

Sometimes he asked Sandy questions, not expecting much of an answer, but because he wanted to make him think, hoping that it might become a habit.

There are a lot of subtle things that are harder to stamp out of a culture in terms of male entrepreneurs being mentored more than female entrepreneurs... male entrepreneurs getting several strikes against them before they're kind of let go, whereas female entrepreneurs, it's kind of one strike and you're out.

Actors don't generally go asking other actors for advice too much, but I'll take suggestions wherever I can.

If I could get better on the field, I could get better in my interviews. I took that approach: if there's something I'm deficient in, whether it be in relationships, whether it be talking to people, just that self-reflection to seek people out who can help me.

This is not rocket science. If you mentor and support people when they leave prison they're less likely to reoffend.

Coaching's not a job, it's a privilege.

I want to help young coaches have an experience like I've had. But mostly, I want to take the prized possession of every parent by taking their children and helping them grow and helping mentor them and helping them teach me.

I think we, as pro coaches, should have a consciousness towards having an image and a role model mentality for kids.