Jerome Boateng Quotes

I used to hate old-timers who didn't praise the younger wrestlers, but you've got to pass the torch sometime. If you're old, that torch gets too heavy for you and you can't carry it, so it won't do you any good.

Everyone I've worked with has been good. You learn from the good, what's good, and you learn from the bad what not to do.

If I don't explain or tell some of my experiences, I feel like I'm doing guys a disservice because I know as a younger player, there's things I could benefit from the experience of an older guy.

A lot of the time I'm working with people who are older than me.

Obviously, we live in a society where ageing is feared. But, to me, the alternative to getting old isn't that great. I've got friends much older than me and much younger, and I love that. It means you get to teach as well as learn.

I don't say what I feel. I say what was said to me because my senior professionals were amazing to me. If I can do anything similar to the young pups, I will do that. My senior pros protected me and looked after me and made me feel amazing.

It's good to have some older friends: they have a lot more experience than us young ones.

You're never too young or too old to be a mentor.

It feels great to know that someone from the younger generation is following me.

The best way to find a balance between doing your best and showing that you're ready for more is by developing other people. As tempting as it is to hoard knowledge, don't. Instead, make certain that there are others who know how to do important aspects of your job.

You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

Players respond to coaches who really have their best interests at heart.

Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done.

The first time someone called me a role model, I remember thinking, 'What does that mean?' But I feel aware of it when I'm reading scripts.

I encourage all of you to seek out teachers and mentors that challenge you to think for yourself and guide you to find your own voice.

At the end of the day, you got to learn from people that been through what you been through; they help you learn from your mistakes.

Not only am I trying to be a daddy, but also a friend, not be the old fogey that's slowing everybody else down... not for a while, at least.

Oprah was not somebody who was telling us what to do, she wasn't really teaching us like so many people we see today. With Oprah, she was learning and we were learning with her. And I think that's really was the seed that was planted for all of us to just hang in there with her.

My dad is a good role model for me, and then I had a high school coach that really helped me out when I was struggling and made a big difference in my life.

I love spending time with young people. I love to hear about what they think. It keeps me young. And they need role models.

Young people need models, not critics.

I want to be someone who can be a role model to kids - and to everyone, for that matter.

Many more of our young people have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy and the other arts of peace. But liberty is not quite the same thing as opportunity; the fact that young people are free to develop their abilities and talents in constructive ways does not necessarily mean that they will do so, unless they get help and support from adults.

I've always found, when I was younger, that the older guys - the guys who weren't of my generation but were 20, 30 years older than me - were the cool guys.