Quotes About Mentoring

If we have poor coaches, that's a reflection of me and a reflection of what we think we can give to the kids.

I'd love to teach Roman Reigns how to work. Just kidding.

I didn't have a father to deal with about boyfriends. I didn't have a father to show me how a man and woman relate in a family setting. Therefore, I have given over my life to mentoring young people. I'm adamant about young people who have been denied a father/daughter relationship.

My driving force in this business is to create and build great men, and to do that, you have to have great relationships.

When I picture myself after football, it's down home, coaching high school football, just a relaxing, normal life.

You try and pick up something from everyone you work with and I grew up watching Jame Carragher and it was such an honour to train with Liverpool's first team.

It's an honor for me to contribute to Houston's younger generations and show them that 'smart is cool.'

I have respected every manager I have played under, but if you can't learn from someone like Mark Hughes, it is going to be hard for you.

I learned from Tendulkar how to get big hundreds.

Obviously, the World War II guys, that's where we, we learned everything from those guys. And then we hopefully, what we learned, we pass down to the newer generation.

I know, when I was growing up, a lot of the views I was listening to, it was a worldview that was not helpful. The world even sold me a false idea of what the good life was, and I wish that people would have helped me to think better about how to interact with that worldview.

On 'America's Next Top Model,' I mentor girls on television. When that TV goes off, I actually mentor other girls in the modeling industry - girls that have not been on 'Top Model,' but who appear in 'Vogue' worldwide.

I'm not too worried about that. I am a big believer in modeling.

My advice is for veterans to seek out mentors, people who are doing what you want to do. You have to decide what you want and have a goal. Don't worry about how you're going to do it. Just trust that you'll get there.

A lot of folks I mentor ask me, 'How did you get there?' I tell them, you never plan on it. Do a good job and treat customers well, do the right things for the right reasons. Prepare yourself, but don't spend all your time worrying about it. Just do your job, and you'll be recognized for it.

It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.

John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.

When I was a young coach, there were people like Chuck Noll, Chuck Knox and Tom Landry who were there for me.

Coaching was always intriguing to me as a kid. Watching 'Monday Night Football' with my dad and hearing him talk through the game management and watching the Tom Landrys and Don Shulas on the sideline was more intriguing to me than watching Troy Aikman or Dan Marino throw the ball.

I couldn't think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow's leaders.

It's not just teachers, but coaches are helping to shape the young people of tomorrow.

There's some football players that I've learned a ton from, just guys I've watched that, unknowingly, just from the film they've put on and what they've done on Sundays and what they've put on film, I've learned so much from it. Guys don't even know that.

When I first came into the league, I was in Tennessee and I had guys like Courtland Finnegan, Chris Hope, Michael Griffin - a ton of guys that were willing to pour into me and help me figure out how to be a pro, whether it was the defense, whether it was life off the field.

Over my NFL career, I've had five head coaches who have helped me become better at my craft and have helped me become a better human being: Jim Mora, Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, John Fox, Gary Kubiak.