Tommy Dorfman Quotes

We need to offer great examples to our youth.

I feel like my role is to be one of those voices who reaches the youth.

I would love to mentor youngsters.

I really want to be a mentor to other Islander kids, because I understand the pressure they are under from their parents.

Bill Milliken is a big hero of mine.

I see myself as an old man and an unqualified teacher to the nation. I think being a teacher is probably the most important thing you can be in politics.

I was captain in Atletico at 19, playing in the same team as Demetrio Albertini, who won three Champions Leagues, and Sergi Barjuan from Barcelona, who had won everything, and they were 32, 33. I was a kid as captain, so I wasn't the real captain, just a kid learning from them.

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 honestly do feel that I am a role model for young people.

I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.

Being a mentor is something that's new for me but a role that I take very seriously.

It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me.

My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me.

I have good relationships with Hillary Clinton, Joseph Biden and especially Richard Holbrooke - he is my teacher. I learned a lot of great things from him.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

The seeds of a fruitful society are sown in the minds of its youth.

Break not the will of the young, but guide it to right ends.

I make an active effort to remain a positive role model to kids. They need people to show them there's another way.

I don't necessarily have one mentor or 'a' mentor. But I do pull inspiration from people, and that's always kind of served me well.

Between being governor and part of the Senate, one of the things I did was I held a chair at the business school at my alma mater, Indiana University. And I'd go to lecture the graduates, and I loved that, answering their questions. It was real; it was tangible, and it was making a difference every day.

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.

There's nothing better than having a positive impact on kids.

My dad was a coach and a schoolteacher.

I prefer really often to talk to high school students, mostly because I think they're the future for us.

Women watch and say, 'I like watching you control your own space. It's motivated me to do better, to go back to college, to even try law school. My daughter's been watching you since she's 10 - I love the fact that she's watching a strong woman who's in control.' All of those things are good, positive things.