Quotes About Mentoring

If I've got a message to the younger generation, it's this: don't be scared of failure. Get out there, try things, and never be afraid to ask for help.

I am excited to be working with the younger generation.

It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.

If you allow yourself to be closed, especially to a younger generation, then that's death. That's instant death.

It's always been a passion of mine to come out and share some of my knowledge about basketball and the experiences I've had with the younger generation.

I like to try to get around the younger generation to just encourage them. But I've always been afraid of coaching because I was always hard on myself as a player.

It's wonderful to be with people of a younger generation. it really is.

The highest grade I've taught is the 11th grade, and the youngest I've taught is the 4th grade.

I always hung out with older people. I would be the youngest out of the crew.

It's healthy to have older friends. You go, 'Look, I'm younger than them!' That's always the nice thing, if you can be the youngest one in the room at times. Like if you're always the oldest one in the room, you'll start to feel like the oldest person in the world. So get older friends, because they're cool. Get cool older friends.

Tommy Smothers is my longest mentor, and Dave Eggers is my youngest.

Today's youngster has a more highly developed mind, and if you start to play down to them, you lose them.

If you look at most youngsters, they have worked well under Van Gaal. I had never heard of Thomas Muller at Bayern Munich before Van Gaal managed him, and he's now one of the best players in the world.

You need young, hungry, developing players in your team, but you also need that experience to level things out and get hold of some of the youngsters when they need advice in certain areas of the pitch.

Arsene Wenger gives youngsters opportunities, and if he thinks that you're good enough, he'll play you.

The young guys keep me motivated. Youngsters coming up behind me.

That's the big thing for youngsters. When you go, you don't want a manager that's not going to have any trust in young players.

As long as youngsters learn the right things, it really doesn't matter where they learn it from.

Players like Didier Drogba, going to watch him play and seeing him off the pitch as well, I got to see how he was with the players and the youngsters. Growing up, he was a good idol. He's a bubbly, funny character. He likes to make people feel welcome. You need those kind of people, wherever you are.

It's lovely to write for the youngsters because through your story, you can teach them the lessons of life.

Sean Davis is one of the best youngsters I've been around. He's got an old head on his shoulders and he's a very good player.

Let's just say I get along well with the youngsters. Working with them energises me, and I find that I have a lot to learn from them.

You can't win tournaments just with youngsters. In important matches we need experience.

Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner.