Quotes About Mentorship

Church must lead all other spheres of influence.We find people from all the mountains there.The church leaders must be able to mentor them

A coach is someone who tells you what you don't want to hear, who has you see what you don't want to see, so you can be who you have always known you could be

A boy comes to me with a spark of interest. I feed the spark and it becomes a flame. I feed the flame and it becomes a fire. I feed the fire and it becomes a roaring blaze.

Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man.

Today if I'm a cricketer it is because of Sachin Tendulkar. Else, I would never have picked up a bat. He's the reason behind me playing cricket

Most of us are in this more than just for playing soccer. We're in it for the bigger goal - to move it along for the next generation.

This is a sport (wrestling) that has turned many boys into men and many men into leaders. And it is a sport in which you can be a giant regardless of how big you are.

Sports kept me off the streets. It kept me from getting into what was going on, the bad stuff.

Gymnastics has given me everything in my life. I will continue to stay involved and try to give back to the sport that has given me so much.

A coach is someone who always makes you do what you don't want to do, so you can be who you've always wanted to be.

I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me

I talk to our players about life and situations and doing the right thing all the time.

Rosie is a Hall of Fame player, and I wouldn't be in the Hall of Fame if it weren't for him.

When a child grows up without a father, there is an empty place where someone must stand, providing an example of character and confidence.

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.

I do not teach anyone I only provide the environment in which they can learn

Instruction is good for a child; but example is worth more.

I'd like to work with Justin Bieber. He's talented and he's so young. I know what he's going through. I've lived what he's living through right now. Working with him would complete a circle of sorts for me. And he might find it a worthwhile experience himself.

The students in your youth ministry don't need your clever ideas and great programming skills. They need a living model—a man or woman of God who is passionate about his or her faith.

Allie returned to MIT to finish her doctorate, only to discover that her advisor, Abraham Sena, whom she had admired, had stolen her thesis while she was gone, publishing it as if it were his own work.

I have long said that good teaching consists in loving the subject you are teaching in the presence of students whom you also love.

On the Threshold is beautiful and very touching and a moving tribute to my friend, colleague and mentor Irvin Yalom.

You can tell your uncle stuff that you could not tell your dad. That is kind of the role of an uncle. I feel very much like a father sometimes but sometimes I feel like a teammate.

And, you know, my dad would show me some things sometimes, but the best things that I got to do were to actually see really good players play up close. That gives you an idea of fingering and technique and what not.