Quotes About Mentorship

I took after my father.

I know my first years sitting on the bench, largely behind Rickey Green, was a great learning tool for me.

We really believe that mentorship is a powerful tool.

I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.

I had a coach that was not a great player, but he taught with kids and juniors so that by the time he was 50 he was great. He helped me make the top 5 in the world and yet he wasn't a great player himself.

Tuchel shows me how to move and what I could do better. He wants to take me to absolute top level.

Knowing whose advice to take and on what topic is the single most important decision an entrepreneur can make.

The torch needs to be held by somebody that's great. Because champions are made in the dark, baby. We don't need the lights and the spotlight. That stuff is for everybody else, man.

B.B. King wanted people to carry the torch. He wanted people to keep that music alive, and he would talk about it.

I opened the door for one of the great stars of today, Mr. Ernie Hudson. I put him in 'Human Tornado.' It was the first film he ever made. I put him in the film and gave him a break.

There are so many people who helped me during all those years in Toronto for everything. Not just about basketball, it's everything. Like life, with my family. Everything.

I started out with Buzz Sawyer in Sacramento. He had me shoot on guys and beat them up. They tossed me a few bones here and there. But, after Buzz passed away, I started seeking training elsewhere.

I know two great men and you are one of them; the other is this young man.

I had an art teacher who's the reason I got there in high school who encouraged me to go to Alabama. That's where she had gone and kept raving over their art department.

I have spoken with many former athletes, and they tell me the best time they had was in sports. I listen to them and use their experience in my career.

And I like a mouse who has taken a cat for its tutor.

Now this process, which requires death to our "selves" and the piercing of the walls of our ego to penetrate into our heart, is not possible without the spiritual master, who already knows what it means to be fully human and who has realized this knowledge himself or herself through journeying across the mountains and valleys of microcosmic existence to reach the One.

George Clooney is a super-human, he's just such an amazing human being, he taught me how to be a better person and a better actor!

I was lucky to have my dad in my life. As crazy as things got, I always had him to put his hand on my shoulder.

When I was younger, my coach, Liang Chow, made all the decisions. I would go to the gym for practice, do exactly what Chow told me to do, go home, come back and start all over again. If Chow told me to do 50 squat jumps, I did 50 squat jumps.

I would make tea for Joni Mitchell or clean her car, anything to be in the studio and watch her work.

He's just another man who wants to teach me something.

I look up to people that are much older than me, so being a mentor is a full time job.

Teaching is another area I like to explore. I've had a lot of great role models and people who have taken the time over the years to help me - and the wheel turns.