Patrick Vieira Quotes

Tuchel always just trusted me and gave me a chance. Of course, he's given me tips and feedback with what he sees every day in training and stuff like that, small things.

For me, a quarterback's best friend, especially a young quarterback's best friend, is a coach who believes in him.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

I had the benefit of being guided by Lew Wasserman. I think part of being a mentor is you have to have confidence in the people you're guiding and mentoring.

To have a superstar - he's Allen Iverson - he really took me under his wing and really forced me to shoot the ball and forced me to make plays, and to have him do that for me - and the way he was always in my ear telling me to shoot the ball and supporting me - it's a big deal.

I might be out of the league if I didn't have a guy like K.G. to show me the ropes and a coach like Doc Rivers.

When I was coming through, I had very little support from the older players. I always said to myself that if I make it, I never want to be that kind of person. I have a passion for seeing young players develop, so every young player who comes into the first team, I am willing to listen. I will give him everything I have.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

A lot of guys, especially the young guys, I try to do anything I can for them - on the field, off the field, anything.

Players respond to coaches who really have their best interests at heart.

Every kid needs a mentor. Everybody needs a mentor.

Most of my job and most of what I do is to mentor people. There are a lot of people I work with that I don't have investments in.

Leadership is not about you; it's about investing in the growth of others.

All of us are mentors. You're mentors right here and now. And one of the things I've always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

I am there for the athletes I coach.

There are lots of women I look up to, but mentors are someone you talk to and not just admire. A lot of my friends that I trust are my mentors.

I learned a lot from the coaches I played for.

It is important to watch and learn from the seniors in the team.

I can remember having meetings with my coaches when things were going bad. I told them, 'Hey, we've got to be positive. This is the time we need to step up. You've got to make sure they know everything is going to be okay. Keep teaching. Once they see you are down, you lose them and that can't happen.'

There is a mutual respect that exists between coaches and players, and ultimately, it's about us trying to help them reach their highest potential.

I'm queen of mentorship.

When I pictured myself in the NBA, I always imagined myself with an older guy taking me under his wing.

When we talk my biggest influence, I have to say Van Gaal. He threw me in the deep end.

You can tell when coaches have a confidence in you.

I've got the best coaches in the world. I've got confidence in them, and they've got confidence in me.