J. R. Moehringer Quotes

I think right now the way society's going, I think role models are important, and kids need direction. If I didn't have that direction growing up, who knows what I could be doing, because I've been lost many times in my life, and I've had to have someone guide me back on the right path.

Girl Scouts helps girls make decisions that are right for them and offer support.

That's the potential power of a single voice - a neighbor's, a teacher's, a parent's, a friend's. It can change you, make you feel as if you have a place in the world.

I've got big homies that done been through the same thing I've been through and they made it out, changed their life and they come back and snatch young cats up and lecture them and let them know right way to do it.

For a young player, it's important to have people around you other than yourself. You're immature as an 18- or 19-year-old.

Nobody succeeds on their own. Someone has to be there to show them the way, and if you give that experience to a person on the street - a gang member, a prisoner - he might succeed. That's how it was for me.

If you can help someone become a good young woman or a good young man, they have a better chance of surviving in this business.

When I look back at the people who shaped me, that made a difference in my life, most of them were women.

Under Wenger I became the player that I am today because he's the guy that signed me at 16. I owe him a lot and all the time I spent here he made me play so much even when I was really young. Those are things you owe him back.

If you're a young man, and you're being coached by someone like Guy Lewis, you're going to become a better man.

I arrived at Shakhtar aged 19 and he taught me a lot. I am very grateful.

I want to be looked at as a positive role model and a person who supports the community. I want to help the kids who are in need and need a role model to look up to to show them the way.

A person's school and teachers help lay a strong foundation, which leads to success.

Bochy is my guy. He raised me in the game; I was 20-years-old and as green as any grapes as you've ever seen on a vine. He took care of me, taught me how to be a professional, and taught me how to get my work done.

I've had so many coaches that have helped me along the way through my journey, who understand me and know me as a person.

Young people are our future, and I always want to help them to grow.

There are a lot of people you never hear about that helped me a lot with my career and helped me become who I am that I've known for a long time and I still stay in touch with.

I make sure in recruiting that the families know that the kids can come to me. I think that matters. I can be a mentor and a resource for them. I didn't necessarily have that all the time growing up.

I've found that having role models and mentors who I resonate with is so important - a lot of people have so many questions and may not know where to go to get answers or may not have someone who can relate enough to even answer in the first place.

When I was young, to have had somebody out there to look up to... it would have made a world of difference; it would have changed my life.

When you decide to go into coaching, obviously you don't forget why. That's to help develop young people, help them chase their dreams, help them reach their goals.

What I always say is that young people need older people to develop their game, grow as people, and understand what Real means.

I would love to mentor youngsters.

We encourage women to become mentors within their communities in order to teach young girls how to thrive in this society. It's a good thing, so, I'm excited about having the platform and this opportunity on My Black Is Beautiful show, because I love my folk.

Coaches are bridge builders. It's our job to build a bridge for our athletes to cross over.