Quotes About Mentorship

I would just love to be able to give back to figure skating.

I'm the baby for sure. My siblings are looking out for me, making sure I'm not doing something stupid. They are making sure my head is set straight and that I'm a good person outside of skating and inside of it, too.

People think that it is important to learn by assisting the great photographers. I say that is a big mistake. Be happy; just learn from any little guy. Learn how to use the camera - you don't need anything else. You can't be taught the real skill anyway.

It's really attractive if a man has a skill that you want to improve in yourself. If you can learn from someone, then that's sexy.

If you can help an employee get to that extra level of skill, you have a great executive.

I really loved working with Michael Caine. He's a really skilled and experienced actor. I learn something from everybody, but when you work with somebody like that, you actually learn things you can put in your toolbox, things about craft. Not necessarily life lessons, but actual things he knows that you can pick up.

If you have a coach helping you, developing your skills alongside you, that's when you're on your way to becoming not just a participant but achieving.

You know, Quincy Jones was a great mentor, but he was a man in a man's world. Fortunately he's a very sensitive man and a beautiful human being, and even though he was 14 or 15 years older than me, he's a capable human being and has great communication skills.

I retired when I was 30, with all my marbles and a few bucks. But a lot of guys leave boxing penniless with no skills. Men in their 30s and early 40s, old for boxing, young in life, but also old in the job market if you're just getting started with no education. These guys need someone in their corner.

Discipline will only teach the techniques - a great teacher gives discipline, motivation and love

I love teaching; I love little kids.

I love teaching. I love working with kids... maybe some day I'll go back to the classroom. I'm not ready to say it'll never happen.

I rely on my directors, a lot. I love being directed.

The apprentice and the master love the master in different ways.

I would love to be a role model.

My desires are simply I love to teach, I love to be in uniform, I love to throw batting practice, I love to be with the kids.

I love working with the singers. I love just finding them.

I love Neil Young. His songs were the first songs I learned to play, and I recommend anyone who is starting guitar to learn Neil Young songs first.

What I've learned over the last 6 or 7 years, I would love to teach people. I still have a lot to share with people and especially within the US.

My father instilled in me a love for racing.

Having disciples is in the end like having children, only not with love but with self-love preeminent.

I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in my senior year there, I took a long fiction workshop with Toni Morrison. I fell in love with it.

I fell in love with coaching. I loved interacting with young people, having the opportunity to make a tremendous impression on them.

The role of leaders is not to get other people to follow them but to empower others to lead.