Walter Alston Quotes

I love to be directed, and I can glean something from almost anyone.

I think I'm always willing to learn and listen to the coaches and the manager and listen to the advice of the players in the team as well, so whenever I get the advice, I try to take it on board and just try to help myself get better.

I'm a coachable person. I don't like to lead myself. I've been taught by great people, and I was able to listen to them.

I'm trying to be a sponge. People say, 'Well, that's what your rookie year is.' I still feel that way in my second year.

One of the things I've learned is to be receptive of feedback.

And again, hast thou valued Patience, Courage, Perseverance, Openness to light; readiness to own thyself mistaken, to do better next time

I learned a long time ago how to be coachable.

I am not afraid to ask for feedback on my work or appearance, and try to never take that advice personally.

I am the recipient of the best coaching that one person has ever had.

When I met Mourinho, I was still very young, but mentally and tactically, he worked on me. He was really demanding: you could not take a step below your level.

Going into a new environment with new coaches posed the question as to how well I actually know my own game. To have these big names asking what I want from them, and what makes me tick, showed me how selfish you have to be with your practice.

I have told many times I am always a student willing to learn new things.

I didn't know how to act, but I was open to learning. I was not delusional that looks would help me sail through.

I want to do this for as long as I possibly can and coach as many different teams and opportunities and different kind of personalities. I want to gobble that all up. And I want to be able to give and add value to these teams.

You have to be coachable.

Even though I am getting my coaching badges, I am more into mentoring.

You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody, especially those who fail. This is hard. ... How promising you are as a Student of the Game is a function of what you can pay attention to without running away.

I took his suggestion to heart and went from a "know-it-all" to a "learn-it-all."

Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

I'm trying to just go with the flow and learn from the people around me.

Training has been such a huge part of my life and career I hope to keep going with it.

What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.

For me, it's about surrounding myself with the best, most talented team out there, and not ever being afraid of being the worst guy in the room. It's ego-crushing, yeah. Every day is ego-crushing. But it keeps you sharper than you can imagine.

At the end of it, I'll maybe do a coaching badge but I'm not going to get forced into things.