Quotes About Mentorship

Every weekend, I'd drive two hours south to San Diego and stay at Steve P.'s small, squalid apartment, where he raised two sons the same way he talked to his students—with compassionate obscenity.

You could summarize Jesus' leadership strategy as follows: I'll do it; you watch. We'll do it together. You do it; I'll watch. You do it!

One of my father's Rules for Life was to marry a woman who was smarter than you. "I did this," he would say to me, "and you should do it, too. I say, why do all the thinking?

Almost all of what I learned about mounting and hosting a dance show I learned from Dick Clark.

Coming off the bench behind a fine young center like Alonzo Mourning fits my style.

That's basically how I learned everything as an actor. I was just a kid, and I worked with these actors, and I'd ask them questions, and then something would work for me, and I'd try to move forward with it.

I'm not in charge of making moves, you know. I'm in charge of coaching.

When I started workin' with Muddy. That convinced me that I could get away with doin' the blues.

Well, one of the best things is workin' with Muddy.

Sachin is the soul of Mumbai Indians, and I am sure he will guide Bhajji as he takes on the responsibility of captaining Mumbai Indians.

In Delhi, I got a chance to assist someone on a documentary film. Then I moved to Mumbai. This was before the satellite TV. One had to assist a director for years before being able to direct a movie.

I had my own musical ideas that Mick helped me with as well.

Chick Corea was a great influence on me, musically, as I was growing up.

Greedo taught me a lot. I don't say that about every artist. Some artists might teach me stuff musically, but Greedo taught me stuff about being a man and being a musician and being a creative, and being different from other people.

The musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head, and they did.

I was very lucky that more experienced musicians allowed me to caterwaul until I figured out what it was really about.

I really thought I was gonna have a straight gig. But these jazz musicians put their arms around me time and again and said, 'Hey, young fella, you're one of us. Come with us.' That's a big deal when you're young and looking for your way in the world.

I have to continue to make the older musicians proud and brush up on my skills.

Hopefully, I can stay around a lot of young musicians and feed off of them.

My English teacher always gave me scripts for plays, but I was into sports. My friend said there were small parts I could go up for, but the director gave me the part of Mozart, which was kind of the lead role. From then on I just loved it.

I am trying to do everything that Ribery did for Bayern because he is a guy I like so much. He is my friend, who gives me lots of advice.

I've always found, when I was younger, that the older guys - the guys who weren't of my generation but were 20, 30 years older than me - were the cool guys.

I've had so many coaches that have helped me along the way through my journey, who understand me and know me as a person.

The Big Show and Mark Henry and even John Cena helped me along my journey.