Ryan Garcia Quotes

You're always attracted to someone you want to learn from.

You are only as powerful as your mentors.

Find a great role model, perhaps someone who struggled and only really succeeded when older. Their biography and what they've done differently from you will help you. If such a person is willing to mentor you or at least allow you to work around them, great.

Playing with Tom Watson, I grew up a little bit. Even if he didn't say something to you, even if he didn't give you advice, you have grown up just watching him. It was great.

David Jacobs is a great influence on my life, has taught me so much about so many things.

It's unbelievable how many things I've learned from Merlin Olsen.

I've learned a tremendous amount from Oprah.

Some of the best advice I've gotten was from William Hurt and Harry Connick Jr. I've really learned a lot from both of them.

I learned life from some good teachers.

I think a role model is a mentor - someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

I learned so much from Ric Flair... just listening to him guide me early in my career.

Bill Belichick has been an awesome, awesome guy to learn from.

I learned a lot from my father.

Everyone who has had success in his or her field of endeavor has had a mentor along the way.

I've learned from the greatest people, and I've got wonderful things to pass on.

Anyone who has been successful and has knowledge to share is a potential mentor.

I have learnt a lot from Praveen Kumar.

It’s obvious you kids are smart-school and good teachers will do that for you-but wisdom is something altogether different. Wisdom can be gathered in your downtime. Wisdom that can change the very course of your life will come from the people you are around, the books you read, and the things you listen to or watch on radio or television.

I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.

Michael Coleman, now that was a boy that taught me some stuff too.

I get a lot of advice from Mark Harmon, and I take it all to heart because I respect the heck out of him.

When you're around somebody like E-40, all you can do is watch and learn, and soak up game.

Ask any successful person, and most will tell you that they had a person who believed in them... a teacher, a friend, a parent, a guardian, a sister, a grandmother. It only takes one person, and it doesn't really matter who it is.

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

If it weren't for the mentorship and guidance from people like my mother, James Brown and others, I wouldn't have been able to make something of my life.