D'Brickashaw Ferguson Quotes

Growing up at United and training with him day-in, day-out, you learn a lot from him. Wazza is always there, and you can talk to him. He has been through a lot of experiences in his life, and he is always happy to pass that experience down to the younger players.

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.

We rarely think to mark the trail for others to follow. 'Live and learn,' we say, acknowledging the value of experience. We usually forget about 'Live and teach.'

I realized that I still had a lot to offer the game. My knowledge could maybe help younger guys. I enjoyed being around the clubhouse, on the field.

I've benefited from great coaches my whole life, starting in sixth grade. To be able to pass that on is a neat experience for me.

Since I was a kid, he's told me to learn from his mistakes.

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.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

Maybe at this stage in my career, it's from that younger generation that I have most to learn.

Obviously, I talk to young players and help them a little bit with my experience.

This is something that I think has been going on for before I played football - just kind of guys sitting down with some of the younger guys to prepare them for what they'll be faced with.

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.

When you get a bit older, you gain more experience, and you try to put it to good use, to help yourself in different ways and also the young players.

I was young myself and reliant on older players to make room for me.

It is one thing that I get a lot of joy out of, and that is passing the torch. Some stuff I show young wrestlers, people haven't seen in 15 years. I show it to them and the gratification I get is when I see them do it out there in a match.

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.

What I've learned over the last 6 or 7 years, I would love to teach people. I still have a lot to share with people and especially within the US.

The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better.

Live and learn and pass it on.

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.

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.

There's natural mentoring that goes on in my life every day.

As we get older, it's important for us to help hand back some of what we've gained as we've grown older. It should be one of your responsibilities - it's almost like being a mentor.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

I love working with older actors because number one, I can learn so much from them because they have so much experience. And it's fun to hear their stories from their era, some of the jokes.