Quotes About Mentoring

Leadership is a nurturing of those under your command.

There's no educating a smart boy.

I don't see a big difference in Jordan Pickford from the first day I started working with him. I see the same humble guy every day, open to listening and to learning.

I love working with the youth. I am just as new to the gospel as lot of the kids, so I get just as much out of it as they do. Just being around them makes it one of the best callings.

I'm always working with amazing people. They're just kind of put in my path.

I know guys look at me for advice. I reach out to Kevin Durant or Wesley Matthews, DeMarcus Cousins... the guys who have been through it, and I just get confident more and more every day.

I think the biggest thing I want to learn from Kevin Garnett, with him having a ring, is how do I become a championship player? How do I see how a championship team looks like? How do I use myself to be a championship contributor?

Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.

The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.

Some guys are just great basketball players and they have the knack for scoring, so people just allow them to get by with that ability without teaching them anything new, without really coaching them.

I guess, if it wasn't for Jordan, there would be no LeBron or Kobe who plays like that.

The veterans would spend so much time tutoring the novices that they would lose track of their work. And by the time the new hires learned enough really to help, the group would have missed the deadline anyway. "For the same reason," Perazzoli said, "your wife's not going to have a baby in three months if you give her two more people." Even

You tell a kid he doesn't like to read, and he'll believe you

Albert Einstein had Max Talmud, his first mentor. It was Max who introduced a ten-year-old Einstein to key texts in math, science, and philosophy. Max took one meal a week with the Einstein family for six years while guiding young Albert. No one is self-made.

2Our goal must be to empower others to do what is right and good for them, and to bring them into spiritual maturity.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

There are a lot of good men out there who just need a little direction and leadership in order for them to offer what they have to young men and boys.

What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!

Team Griffin Foundation is a foundation trying to inspire young men and women to give them organization, give them something to have, kind of like when I was growing up. I had people who were supporting me, giving me the right tools that I needed to be able to achieve my dreams.

Young men, more than anything, need good role models in their lives.

I think all coaches look at it as a major part of our job: to build young men, not just ball players. To put the right things in front of them, and help them mature as men, not just as players.

We talk about building young men so they can be productive husbands, fathers and citizens.

Young people need models, not critics.

Help young people. Help small guys. Because small guys will be big. Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up, they will change the world.