Quotes About Mentorship

I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available.

I looked down the line of the wonderfully successful people on either side of me and wondered if each of them had a Coach Wooden who, to quote President Obama, "helped make me who I am." I hoped so, because without Coach, my life would have been so much less. Less joyous. Less meaningful. Less filled with love. Later

I am trying to be the girl I didn't have. That's important to me. I have to be conscious of that. In this weird, dark, small, very intimate way, there's a girl out there who relies on me. And that's super important to me, and I don't want to let her down.

My father was the first person to introduce me to self-defense and martial arts, which I've been doing all my life now.

I'd definitely like to give back. I know a lot of kids watch college wrestling, and a lot of kids watch me, want to meet me and introduce themselves.

Mahesh Bhatt introduced me to the world of films.

I always feel pleasure while introducing new talent.

To have a director's direct feedback is invaluable.

I realize I got to where I am because people took the time to invest in me and make sacrifices and hopefully I can pay that forward and try to my part to help somebody else.

Well, I was lucky to have people throughout my life who invested in me.

I started angel investing because I like hanging out with entrepreneurs.

I coach my mentees to act as if they are invincible - to act as if they could accomplish anything!

We have to let young people know that we care about them and their future. I want to involve them to a level where they become the leaders and the advocates because, right now, a lot of these young people don't believe they have an advocate.

There was nobody in the city I came from - Cork, Ireland - that I could link up with to teach me the guitar.

I grew up watching Lee Trevino, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer.

I have played father to Jackie Shroff and Rishi Kapoor.

Jackie Chan is like a big bro to me.

I have great coaches, but one thing I've never really had is that head coach - a Greg Jackson, Matt Hume, John Hackleman.

I knew when I got to play with Al Jackson I would be a better bass player because he was the best drummer in the world. I worshipped him.

Boys need fathers, and you can't do that in jail.

When the generation after me started getting on the cut, a lot of them would call me over to hang out or go jam and scratch and they were always separate from each other.

If it weren't for the mentorship and guidance from people like my mother, James Brown and others, I wouldn't have been able to make something of my life.

Jamie Carragher was someone who I looked at as to how to organise, how to defend and how composed he was, how good he was at reading the games and he was one I looked up to.

Working with Jamie Lee Curtis has changed my life. I grew up adoring her.