Quotes About Mentoring

I love teaching the younger skaters.

Coaching is a very different skill. You need patience, you need a lot of organisation. I don't have any.

If you're an older sibling and you have a younger sibling who needs mentoring or is afraid of the dark, you develop nurturing and empathic skills that you wouldn't otherwise have.

Mourinho is known for getting under players' skins, tickling and goading better performances out of them.

I love all the mentoring, the public-private partnership ideas.

When you invest in people and lift them toward their potential, they will love you for it.

I love finding new talent, to be completely honest, and my opportunity that I got to do 'X Factor U.K.' was just incredible. I will never forget it.

They believed that any boy treated with decency, encouragement, and respect would grow into a model citizen, and they were nearly always right. Ninety-five percent of Xaverian boys went on to live normal, stable lives.

We coaches have to learn how to deal with that: How do I get to each one best - with a talk, with video analysis? And what sort of tone? We need our own coaches for that. The sports psychologist coaches me too.

Be gentle with the young.

He was an idea man," recalled Phillips. "He never did any great physics, but look at all the lovely ideas that he worked out with his students.

Usually, people that I like to work with are people that I believe in more than they believe in themselves, and they just need that extra boost and the person to give them a little more time and understanding and introspection into their own character to find that box office that lives inside of them.

Iron sharpens iron, and that's one man getting another guy ready to play.

There's lots of bad things about teaching, but the really good thing is that you get to be around young people - irritating as they are.

Isaac Hayes told me once, 'There's no such thing as old-school. Either you went to school or you didn't.'

James Franco is a coach, therefore he doesn't need coaching or guidance.

You look at teams in college, the MMA world, and beyond that allow bullying, where guys get jealous during training and stuff like that. You need to have a space where everyone feels like they have an equal opportunity - like they have support, people watching out for them.

The next Rick Hendrick, Richard Childress, or Joe Gibbs has to come from somewhere.

Patrick Lencioni, Spencer Johnson, and Stephen Covey are great communicators.

You don't coach a Magic Johnson, you don't coach a LeBron, you don't coach really a Lonzo. They understand the game, they smart, they understand.

We should conduct ourselves so that wisdom will grow. Our organization's structures should be designed to facilitate learning at all levels, in all areas, even if at first we don't see the relevance. Professional development opportunities including seminars, university programs, special project teams, and mentoring programs are just a few examples of structured learning.

The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability.

Regardless of where I am or what I am working on, there is always one thought on my mind: Who shows promise? Who shows up every morning? Who solves problems? Who thinks of something clever? These people are my future if I can involve and develop them.

I define a leader as anyone who takes responsibility for finding the potential in people and processes, and who has the courage to develop that potential.