Quotes About Mentoring

My dad was mixture of John Wayne, Steve McQueen and Errol Flynn all rolled up into one. He was a really tough guy. He taught me how to fight literally when I was four years old. He taught me street-fighting techniques.

Give me 10 high school pitchers, let me spend a week with them, and I'll show you 10 pitchers who won't balk. It's not that difficult, and they better learn it.

I believe in order to coach, you've got to start at the ground level. The same way I learned how to play basketball.

I never forced my boys to play basketball. I only work with them on individual problems when they come to me.

I was very lucky to have fantastic leaders before me in Paul Kelly, Leo Barry, Brett Kirk, Craig Bolton, Mick O'Loughlin and Stuart Maxfield, and all of those players led in completely different ways.

Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach.

I've got plenty of advice from a number of other actors. Me? I don't give advice.

Rampone and the other experienced players gave me plenty of support when I first came into the national team in 2013.

If I could turn into my old coaches, or my parents, then I'd consider that a definite plus.

It's hard to be the point guard, especially playing with a young team.

As a point guard, I'm a coach on the floor. I know that.

In Naples, I was very lucky to find my players adapted to my way of football. They were strong as players and strong from a human point of view.

When I was a young player, I would look at players and think, he does this well, and try and pick up good points from them, or he conducts himself well, I'll pick up on that.

When you're a manager it's different from being a coach.

Will I become a coach in the future? No way. I'd never be able to put up with someone like me.

The main thing I do now is I coach kids, and all of these stories along the way are based in reality.

Playing all these different sports, you learn so much from the people you get coached by.

College kids want to be coached. They want to be taught. They might resist it a little bit early on, but the more you give, the more you get back.

You can have old guys who aren't willing to be coached just like you can have young guys who aren't willing to be coached.

You can learn a lot. You can learn how to win. You can learn how to be coached.

I've been lucky to have worked for many great coaches. They've all been so good that maybe, at the end of my career, I'll give it a go myself.

I just took the good and the bad from all of the coaches I've been around.

Most of the coaches just tell you, 'No, no, you're doing well. This is fine.' But I actually want someone who will tell me what I didn't do right so that I can improve.

I'm not afraid to learn from my coaches.