Patrick Roy Quotes

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

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

I love working with kids, talking with them and listening to them. I always encourage kids to reach beyond their dreams. Don't try to be like me. Be better than me.

Coaches around the country are influencing the next generation of men in a positive way.

If you ever get in a position to influence and inspire the youth of the country, you should do it.

Hopefully I can help kids, and they can end up being stronger in the long run, too.

Yeah, football can change a person's life, it changes a lot of people's lives. You can see the kids we work with. You can you make their day just by them meeting you, that's lovely, that's great.

Making a film is very gratifying and intoxicating. It does great things to your self-esteem, but pushing people and mentoring them to their full potential is far more fulfilling.

I'd like to be remembered as someone who made a difference in the lives of young people - that I nurtured someone and taught them to pursue their dreams and their careers, to leave a legacy.

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.

To me, the avocation of a teacher has something elevating and exciting. While surrounded by the young, one may always be doing good.

The National Youth Theatre did one very simple but incredible thing for me: it made me realise I had choices.

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.

Transformed people transform people.

It turns out, all the studies show you invest a little time in another person's life, often a younger person, and all of us have that capacity to do it, just an hour a week, an hour every couple of weeks, and you can make a tremendous difference in a kid's life over their lifetime.

I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth.

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

I always thought I would be a teacher. And I think I actually lived up to my initial dreams, because what I do now is teach millions and millions of people many different kinds of things.

Young people need models, not critics.

If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.

I became a teacher because I wanted to make a difference in people's lives.

For the parents of the youth of Africa, please give your kids a chance to realise their dreams.

My teachers made me what I am today. I remember they used to instill confidence in me and stress on remaining focused.

It's amazing what one positive role model in your life can do in five minutes.

Usually, people that I like to work with are people that I believe in more than they believe in themselves, and they just need that extra boost and the person to give them a little more time and understanding and introspection into their own character to find that box office that lives inside of them.