Quotes About Mentoring

Treat people as if they were what they should be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything." ( Letter to A.F. Oeser , Nov. 9, 1768)

Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your life.

Instead, we try to give them affection, confidence and guidance, more or less in that order, because experience has shown us that those are their most immediate needs.

Too often we attempt to teach people to swim in a classroom." If you have ever taken swimming lessons, you immediately get the importance of getting in the water and practicing under the watchful eye of a swimming rabbi. Jesus invited the original twelve to go swimming with Him.

Teachers touch the future.

Teaching creates all other professions.

Children are great imitators. So give them something great to imitate.

Piscem natare doces [You're teaching a fish to swim].

My role is to take the player to his limits, to provoke him, to annoy him against me, because in this nervousness is the will to improve.

You almost need a psychology degree to be a manager these days. Even with Fabio Capello - who may not have done too well with England - you could tell why he had been so successful in the past. He had real authority.

You can't make the kid feel like he just made three mistakes in a row and you're pumping him up. No. There's a balance to it. It's, 'Listen, here's why you did what you did. Don't do it next time, and you'll be OK.'

Talking to a player helps, but in our sport the majority of learning happens from watching another player. You pick up things like being punctual, being nice to everyone, making sure you give your 100 per cent even in training.

When you want to be a good coach you have to have the full package, that's for sure. I don't believe that you always have to punish or instil fear into players like the old days.

I belong to Helmut Kohl's political pupils.

One of the joys of working with boys is that you get your pay as you go along. You can observe the results of your leadership daily... Such satisfaction cannot be purchased at any price; it must be earned.

It wasn't until Joe Maddon called me in 2006 when I thought about pursuing a coaching career.

Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.

There's something about actors - not stars, but actors - if they have the character, and someone is pushing and shoving them to be the best they can be, they enjoy that.

Making a film is very gratifying and intoxicating. It does great things to your self-esteem, but pushing people and mentoring them to their full potential is far more fulfilling.

Every kid I've been around as a football player, they want their coaches to make them better as men and as players.

It is not easy to change things in a footballer that other coaches told him were very good.

There's a big difference between being a footballer and being a coach.

I had two wonderful teachers: Sanford Melsner and Fred Kareman.