Quotes About Mentorship

I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I'll be happy to pass my knowledge along and help someone else.

I just felt that it was my responsibility, since so many people had taken the time to help me along, to do the same for others.

Student is #1. If a student comes to me and needs an hour after class of my time, I am going to give him everything without hesitation.

I've worked with a lot of first-time directors who kind of look to me for ideas and opinions and stuff, and I'm a team player.

Time spent with a potential leader is an investment.

I got to talk to Mel Lewis a lot as a teenager. I think that's what really impacted me the most around that time.

Teaching is the most powerful force that changes our world one student at a time.

If you talk to your children, you can help them keep their lives together. If you talk to them skillfully, you can help them to build future dreams.

I think you're still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.

Chance planned to live in such a way that his son would grow up to be a strong, wise, honorable, faithful man. And the only way Chance knew to teach that was to be such a man himself.

I went out to become a flame-spotter. I made it my job to watch for those bright flares in the growing night of savagery, which were the men of ability, the men of the mind—to watch their course, their struggle and their agony—and to pull them out, when I knew that they had seen enough.

There's nobody to guide through the process of becoming a man... to explain to them the meaning of manhood. And that's a recipe for disaster.

Oh, whatever would I do without my child-progeny sister to tell me what to do. Prodigy, I corrected.

All knowledge measured, first and last, by one's allegiance to the teacher.

He taught me a lot. But before the teaching, he listened.

Discipline derives from disciple—disciple to a philosophy, disciple to a set of principles, disciple to a set of values, disciple to an overriding purpose, to a superordinate goal or a person who represents that goal.

I knew I must not join him, but how could I tell that to the one who taught me how to live?

I want you to think of the most empowering relationship in your life. This should be a relationship with someone who lifted you up, who somehow carried you forward. It could be with a spouse or a sibling; a lover or a friend; a teacher or a coach; a priest, rabbi, or minister; a parent or guardian—it could be anyone.

No one should teach who is not in love with teaching.

I love having fans of all ages but it's especially cool for me to have young fans. I hope to be a role model for kids who want to follow their dreams.

Now, if you want to know my secret love, it is to be able to serve as an example.

Either love your players or get out of coaching.

Watching great people do what you love is a good way to start learning how to do it yourself.

I love working with kids, talking with them and listening to them. I always encourage kids to reach beyond their dreams. Don't try to be like me. Be better than me.