Quotes About Mentorship

I loved teaching. I used to teach fourth grade.

Mr. Balanchine wanted me to be myself. He didn't want me to look like anyone else. I love teaching our company dancers the Balanchine ballets. I try to give them what was passed down to me and what I learned from him. They dance it so beautifully. It also keeps me close to Mr. Balanchine. He's with me every single day.

I probably learned most at MIT by teaching and working with Peter Diamond, who acted like a big brother to me during my time in the department.

I value teaching. It's one of the places I get inspiration, engagement.

I enjoy teaching football.

I manage a team, for beach soccer. I'm the coach. Player, coach.

At Real Madrid, we have many good players that the team can learn from.

There are always a lot of guys that have potential, but to make it a certain amount of years in the league, it takes more than just potential. You have to be professional, you have to be a good teammate, do things the right way. So now, any chance I get to talk to younger guys, I do it.

I was also very lucky to be a teammate of two of the greatest players to have ever played the game. I learned very early on by playing for Frank Robinson and with Henry Aaron that even the greatest players in the game were just one of the guys.

My favorite memory of Kevin Garnett is not a memory - it's more of the experience I had with him for a year, just enjoying that moment of being his teammate, conversing with him every single day, learning from him every single day.

I always try to look at kids like I'm in the locker room, and I'm a teammate.

My teammate Torii Hunter taught me how to lead and provide encouragement to the locker room.

I'm lucky to play with Messi for the national team; I've learned many things. I can pick up a lot from him in terms of how he reads the play, how he thinks, how he sees the movement of his teammates. This will help me a lot for the future.

I want to stay in Boston. I want to be a Boston Bruin, and I want to continue to lead by example and share my experiences and my games skills with the younger players and my teammates.

I think there's a lot to be learned from your teammates and older guys around you. And there are many ways to lead. You don't have to change your personality to be a leader.

I used to go to open gym to play with my friends and teammates, and I'd get there 30 to 45 minutes early so I could play one-on-one against my dad. When I reached ninth grade, I was finally able to beat him.

I looked up to Magic Johnson a lot. He was a tall point guard who found his teammates and had a good time.

I think the ultimate sign of an icon or legend in any sport is the ability to elevate their teammates.

I always try to talk to my younger teammates in the same way I would do with my older ones and you can see in their eyes how much showing them some respect means.

At LSU, I was a true leader. I know I made some mistakes, but I think I was a leader for my teammates.

I want to... help the young guys, help my teammates, help everybody be confident and make everybody feel like they're special.

The more you're at Alabama, you grow as a person and as a player learning from great coaches and great men and just growing with your teammates.

My whole time at Dunbar, I've had great players around me. My teammates, my coaches.

If you want to be successful and you want your teammates to respect you, you got to be open to advice from the older guys.