Quotes About Mentorship

Now to be the NBA player that gets to coach the little kids and talk to them and enjoy time with them, I think is just amazing.

I love watching players improve - even as a Little League coach.

As a young player, you really don't know if players look up to you, and maybe you're not sure how to be in the locker room.

Bayley is a locker room leader, and an amazing person inside and out. I've watched and learned from her, the way she handles situations and adapts so easily and quickly. She has the ability to make things look so easy.

No I.D. executive-produced 'Under Pressure' and helped me find the Logic sound that's evolving every day.

Hopefully I can help kids, and they can end up being stronger in the long run, too.

I have a lot of history with Eric Young, he actually trained me in the very beginning of my career. We go back a very long way.

I have worked with a lot of kids. Most of them have been really lovely. But there are a lot of trappings.

I'm very involved with kids because after being a teacher for seven years, I just can't stop loving the kids. I am a teacher forever.

I've got the luck of having Jose Mourinho to learn from.

Every Luke Skywalker needs his Darth Vader.

Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?

My greatest inspiration is my coach, Maggie Haney.

I model myself on Christie Rampone and look up to her. Obviously, achieving what she's achieved would be magnificent. I'd really like to meet her just once.

I became a teacher because I wanted to make a difference in people's lives.

Artistic development made me who I am. Somebody took the time to help me find what it is that works for me as an entertainer and who I am as a music maker.

I'm appreciative that young males can look up to myself.

You can learn a lot about good management by working under someone who is a bad manager.

I try to help people with management stuff a lot.

My manager has been my manager since I was 17, and he says that he's supposed to be smart for me when I can't do it for myself.

When you are young, you always want to improve, to work with great managers - and Arsene Wenger is one of the best in the world.

Obviously the chance to work with Rafa, there's not really a better situation I could be in. He's great. He takes his time with you. One-on-ones, he'll stay out after training for another hour if you need it. He's been one of the best managers I've had.

I had the best teacher there can be in man management or managing a football club.

My dad set a clear model for me for what manhood was all about.