Major Taylor Quotes

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

Encouraging the next generation is really where my heart is.

For me, I'm always willing to help young guys, because veterans have helped me out.

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.

I really enjoy helping younger guys out, because this league is about playing it forward a little bit.

It's very important for men to look downward, to the next generation.

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

Help young people. Help small guys. Because small guys will be big. Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up, they will change the world.

I've put in 63 years now in the big leagues as a player, coach, manager. And now just being around these young guys, it keeps you going pretty good.

The boxing game has been good, so we need to give back. We have to teach young men how to be men.

I’ve always tried to help students because I think we owe it to you young folks to pass on what we learned going down the road so that you can make your own mistakes, not the same ones we made.

When Thierry Henry was U19 coach at Arsenal he gave me a lot of advice. His main thing was staying grounded.

I feel it's my duty to get to the young players, tell them what's out there.

I like to be try to be a mentor to some of the younger quarterbacks in the NFL.

I'm thankful for the experience and to be able to coach other young people on their journey through college football. It's a privilege.

I would like to involve and love to work with young players.

I would love to mentor youngsters.

I try to take a couple of young guys under my wing and tell them what I've learned, because you can't teach nobody if you don't know anything.

I was a young player at Real, but working with players like Zidane and Beckham every day taught me such a lot: how you win and lose as a team and how you must respect your team-mates.

There's something about that 15- to 18-year-old boy, the time of their life that you can really impact them, not only on the field but off the field and still get the competitiveness that I love.

I think Together #WePlayStrong is a big step for football. This project is about building interest and professionalism and making younger women want to play football at a high level.

The big element I think that I bring is that I am a veteran coach.

I try and focus on the youth coming up, and I think tennis is a great sport regardless of how far you make it: just, obviously, a lot of good life lessons.

Rod Strickland has been influential. He gives me a lot of advice, good and bad games; he is someone I really look up to a lot.

Some of the best coaches I've been around are those people I worked with in high school.