Donald Sadoway Quotes

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.

I look at tennis as a bit of a platform to hopefully touch lives and encourage people.

A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential; a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself.

Giving back, doing motivational speeches and stuff like that, that's always made me feel good. If you repeatedly go out there, and you are the change that you want to see, then that's what you are.

I don't intimidate anyone. Instead, I try to get people to believe in themselves.

Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.

I try to develop others. I get a great deal of joy out of helping people who, over the years, I've spent a lot of time mentoring - and just trying to get them to another level.

I love inspiring people and helping them to reach their potential.

Transformed people transform people.

All coaching is, is taking a player where he can't take himself.

As a leader, I am tough on myself and I raise the standard for everybody; however, I am very caring because I want people to excel at what they are doing so that they can aspire to be me in the future.

Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession.

I fell in love with coaching. I loved interacting with young people, having the opportunity to make a tremendous impression on them.

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

Reese Witherspoon made me better. Just working with her, being with her, I learned so much. I want to be like her.

True success for me is allowing players to be better than I was. That is what I went into coaching for and I've not lost sight of that.

I want to make other people around me smarter and more powerful.

I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.

You need somebody to open your eyes, to tell you there's things that you can do, and I had that person in Brian Marwood. I think if I'm where I am today, it's because of him.

Before I became a leader, I thought success was all about building myself up. But then, once I became a leader, I realized that success is about building others up.

I'm trying to be the messenger for the people that pay attention to me. And those people I want to help inspire because a lot of people maybe think it's - they're too cool for school. That's all I can ever do.

Making a film is very gratifying and intoxicating. It does great things to your self-esteem, but pushing people and mentoring them to their full potential is far more fulfilling.

That's what I like to do: bring out the best in people.

Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.