Mindy Grossman Quotes

We could all use more coaching.

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

I have worked under several coaches and wish to appreciate each one of them. Jurgen Klopp, though, has helped me improve. He knows how to push you into performing; he knows exactly what should happen.

My previous bosses - Louis van Gaal and Marcello Lippi, to name two - have all taught me something.

To me, personally, my development to become a head coach will be much better working for Coach Saban than necessarily going somewhere else because you learn every day that you're in there.

My goal early in becoming a head coach so young was to find out if I could do it. I just wanted to see if I could be a good head coach and then start learning from head coaching.

Everyone knows that I had a lot of good coaches but one person was very important: Jupp Heynckes.

Every boss I've ever had has challenged me, pushed me, believed in me, and led by example.

I try to find, celebrate and teach leaders how to build platforms that will inspire others.

I never thought I'd be a role model but I think to some people I am or have been.

You don't have to be popular with the players to be a good manager or coach.

Great leadership can be a difficult thing to pin down and understand. You know a great leader when you're working for one, but even they can have a hard time articulating what it is that makes their leadership so effective.

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie.

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

I don't mind sacrifice. I don't mind discipline. But a good coach allows people to blossom. I've seen that. I didn't have it.

I want to be a role model.

Believe it or not, the first spark for everything I've done today came down to me meeting one person in college who changed my life. A student named Anthony Adams who lived across the hall from me in our freshman dorm showed me what it meant to be an 'entrepreneur' when I saw him launch his own start-up company.

I always have someone to look up to, and I think it helps me with motivating myself.

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.

If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.

Regarding managing people, I am lucky to be surrounded by good, smart friends, some of whom own their own companies or have worked in ones and can lend experience.

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

My producer for the first 'Kung Fu Panda' movie, Melissa Cobb, is an amazing woman. She's supersmart and helps push everyone - male, female, anyone - to do their best.