Robert Wagner Quotes

I always looked up to so many people before me and was lucky to become such good friends with them. I learned so much hanging out with those cats.

I think you can always learn lessons by the guys who came before you.

You've got these young kids out here that have to learn, but you learn from the guys above you. I learned from the Kevin Faulks.

I learned everything that I know about comedy and about show business and a lot about life from Carl.

You ask yourself, 'What do you want your legacy to be?' I'm content at this point to say, 'Those who follow me.' Romeo Crennel, Bill Belichick, Sean Payton, to name a few. I think I've got a pretty good group, so far.

I've definitely had mentors, whether parents or friends or actors who I like.

I learned life from some good teachers.

I had the benefit of being guided by Lew Wasserman. I think part of being a mentor is you have to have confidence in the people you're guiding and mentoring.

I had many good managers: Wim Jansen, Martin O'Neill, Frank Rijkaard, and Alex Ferguson, to name just a few.

My mentors were very good.

My dad played in so many places, so I got to learn from so many other guys and they get to teach me.

I have a lot of heroes. I don't think people give enough of a tribute to their mentors. They try to act like they're spontaneous generations - they are faking liars.

Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.

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

My mentors in life are much older than me and have been through life. They can actually give me some sound advice on what I'm going through.

This industry has been really good to me. It's been a great life. I'm not through yet. I'm ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

I built my talents on the shoulders of someone else's talent.

I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn't even go into my family, who had the most influence.

I tell young people that people aren't just going to flock to you as your mentors. You have to seek them out. It could be your next-door neighbor; it could be somebody upstairs from you, somebody down the block from you. An aunt or an uncle. Some relative. A parent.

I think that we have a great opportunity to impart our wisdom and our knowledge and our experience to this younger generation. It may be different times, but experience transcends time, and wisdom transcends time.

Tommy Smothers is my longest mentor, and Dave Eggers is my youngest.

It's been a joy to be a part of other people's journey, to be able to inspire and be a part of new singers coming up in this business.

Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven't been good role models. To be someone that people look up to is important to me.

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.

I look up to a lot of people, but outside of my parents, I've never really had a mentor.