Dikembe Mutombo Quotes

For me, I really enjoy helping out the Youth Baseball Academy. That's something that any time you're helping out the game of baseball with at risk children, that puts a smile on my face.

It's a great job to have to try to spread the game, to spread joy, to help anybody out.

I didn't really want to be the coach who wins but the coach who educates.

My desires are simply I love to teach, I love to be in uniform, I love to throw batting practice, I love to be with the kids.

I used to get stressed out all the time when I thought winning was important. I wanted to try to win and help my kids win. Once I figured out it wasn't about winning or losing, it was about teaching these kids about being men, that's when I started to relax.

The boxing game has been good, so we need to give back. We have to teach young men how to be men.

The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.

As I move on to the professional stage of my career, I will always remember my time as a Jayhawk. Playing here has prepared me for the opportunity to have a successful career in the NBA.

The NFL Legends Community is the epitome of service. This isn't about promoting you anymore. It's about promoting something bigger than you.

Football has given me a lot and I have tried my best to give something back.

I grew up in youth programs in Chicago, so they are definitely close to my heart. It is all about helping kids and giving back to a sport that has given me so much.

I would like to involve and love to work with young players.

I really enjoy helping younger guys out, because this league is about playing it forward a little bit.

I'm probably going to be the scruffiest Chief Scout you've ever had and my health and safety policy is non-existent.

Football has given me so many opportunities in life and now I want to play my role in supporting others through the game.

I went into criminal justice because I want to learn more about the law, about what's going on in this world, and be a mentor to kids from where I'm from.

We all have learned throughout our careers that there are ups and downs in the NBA.

Playing sports is great when you're young. It teaches you how to focus, how to direct your energy, how not to think about a million other things that are going on.

Of course when you are starting to be a coach you want to do your best and my national team is my dream.

And I think at the end of my life, it's not going to be about what I did for myself, but what I did for others. Maybe it's staying after practice to do hand signals with the guys to help them get caught up to speed. To make it about others - I think that's what leadership is all about, quarterbacking is all about.

We're not in the business of making doorknobs. We're in the business of people. There are things you have to do these days as a coach and as a teacher to deal with the modern athlete.

I want to coach because I love it. I don't want to sound hokey, but when you play for Frank McGuire, Dean Smith, and Pete Newell - they taught me a lot - I want to share what they taught me with a lot of people. I don't want to stop doing this.

To become a good coach, you need to win a lot.

I wasn't sure how it would unfold once I got to the NBA, but I knew if I got to the NBA, I could then have the platform and have the resources and the connections and the people around me that had more connections and more resources to help me really impact a lot of people's lives.

And I love doing my radio show and I love some of the other interests that I have. But I really feel like the biggest contribution I can make is in the lives of the men in this Valor football program.