Quotes About Mentorship

I am delighted that young filmmakers want me in their films. They have open minds and a fresh take on old attitudes. I derive a lot of energy from them. Most of all, I find their love and respect utterly disarming.

A young girl reached out to me to be her mentor one day, which I didn't really know anything about. What I did remember was what it was to be alone as an African-American dancer in the ballet world and wanting to connect with someone who looks like me.

A lot of young girls look up to me and it's amazing.

I'm honored to be in a position to have young girls or performers look up to me.

I appreciate that young girls look up to me. And I take that very seriously.

I'm a role model for lots of young girls.

I want young girls that I mentor and young girls all around the world who want to be a model to be able to see that there's a great deal of sacrifice.

As a person, to inspire some young girls and give them something to look at and give them something to play for, I think is such a great position to be in. I'm glad that I can follow all of the great Korean players' footsteps.

I would like to be somebody young people, young girls, can look up to.

It is so key to me to be a good role model for young girls and someone their mom would want them to look up to.

My father gave us inner confidence. He taught us, as young girls, never to be scared.

I want to guide young girls.

So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chance on a guy like me. It turned out to be a very symbiotic partnership. I learned a lot from him.

Coach Spurrier was just an amazing competitor. I felt I learned to really love the competition of it all from watching him and being around him. All his assistant coaches were great recruiters, very professional in how they handled their business. So as a young guy, I got to see that all the time.

As a young guy, you talk to the assistant coach.

I'm no longer the young guy in No I.D.'s studio asking for Kanye beats.

It's really important for a young guy to have a coach who wants to improve you and believes in you.

You don't have to be a leader of a big organization. You can be a leader of your brother, of a young kid, of your community. That way you affect life, someway, somehow.

The fact that Phil Jackson asked a young kid when he didn't have to and said, 'Hey, do I have permission to coach you?' Those are very powerful lessons that you learn. That's only happened to me a couple times in my entire career, that coaches would actually ask me that question. That just lets me know that he saw me for who I was.

I find young kids. I enjoy coaching and enjoy making them better players.

We are shaping young kids to be leaders in their communities and also to be healthier.

I think we need to do as much as we can to give back to these young kids growing up. I think we've done a pretty decent job so far.

Galley Molina's a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.

People should look up to me. Young kids. I am a good role model. I'll show them how men should really be. And kids can take note from that. I am a good role model. Lots of kids look up to me.