Ray Allen Quotes

I've always tried to grow people rather than cricketers.

When you decide to go into coaching, obviously you don't forget why. That's to help develop young people, help them chase their dreams, help them reach their goals.

A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others. Few things in life are better than seeing people realize their potential. If you invest in people by helping individuals improve themselves, showing them the way to their “right place”, they will never be the same again. And neither will you. It is impossible to help others without helping yourself.

I love talking to the youth and helping them as much as I can or encouraging them, if I can help them at all.

There's natural mentoring that goes on in my life every day.

I try to develop others. I get a great deal of joy out of helping people who, over the years, I've spent a lot of time mentoring - and just trying to get them to another level.

I fell in love with coaching. I loved interacting with young people, having the opportunity to make a tremendous impression on them.

The best piece of advice I've received is find a mentor, but also mentor others. You have two hands, so reach up, look for as many mentors as you can to get where you want to go, but never forget that you have another hand, and you have to reach down and lift others up, too.

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.

The thing I like about college football so much is you can affect these guys a lot more when they are 18-22, 23 years old in terms of people and having a chance to be more successful. They are still a value type development, where you have a chance to help them mature a bit and help them be a little more successful in life.

True success for me is allowing players to be better than I was. That is what I went into coaching for and I've not lost sight of that.

Once all of this is over, I'm definitely going into coaching. I want to change and help people's lives in many different ways.

I could not be more proud of the countless lives that I have changed since I began my coaching and mentoring career!

That's what I like to do: bring out the best in people.

A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential; a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself.

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

What is a coach? We are teachers. Educators. We have the same obligations as all teachers, except we probably have more influence over young people than anybody but their families. And, in a lot of cases, more than their families.

I don't intimidate anyone. Instead, I try to get people to believe in themselves.

Every kid needs a mentor. Everybody needs a mentor.

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.

My role models have kept on changing.

I love inspiring people and helping them to reach their potential.

There are a lot of good men out there who just need a little direction and leadership in order for them to offer what they have to young men and boys.

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

No matter what color you are, if you mentor some little boy or girl, you make a huge difference in their lives because they then model behavior that leads to success versus modeling behavior that doesn't.