Tom Seaver Quotes

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 felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.

I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.

I get a lot of advice from Mark Harmon, and I take it all to heart because I respect the heck out of him.

I'm flattered that other artists consider me a role model.

When you work with a legend as I do, it's wonderful. There's so many things I've learned working with Keith. He's so patient, not only with me, but with everyone in our crew and with the audience and with the game. He has a style that is so easy and will never be copied.

Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson.

Bobby Cox had the biggest influence in my career and probably the second- or third-biggest influence in my life.

It's wonderful to work with someone with mentor status.

Marian Wright Edelman is a mentor and hero of mine.

It's always great for a young guy to have those examples, even though you may not follow 'em right away, it's great to have those guys in the locker room that you could look up to and see the right way to go about your business.

It is important to watch and learn from the seniors in the team.

A lot of people ask what it takes to move from being a creative to a leader: Take everyone's career personally. People will work hard for you if you work hard for them. Any idiot can be a boss; all you need is a title. But to be a leader, you need to earn respect and have an opinion you stand by.

You try and pick up something from everyone you work with and I grew up watching Jame Carragher and it was such an honour to train with Liverpool's first team.

A high-profile player has to toe the line and I try to lead by example. A lot of guys appreciate that, and it is an advantage to have somebody as captain whom the players feel they can look up to; somebody whose door they can knock on to talk about anything on cricket or life.

Undertaker was always a leader in the dressing room, always a man's man. No one ever doubted what he said because his word was good. He was a guy that set the dressing room standard. If you had an issue or personal problem, you could go to Undertaker and he would help you.

I'm a role model.

I didn't play much under Imranbhai, but he was special.

Nobody has had a bigger influence on me as far as day-to-day preparation than Todd Lickliter. He was a huge, huge, huge influence.

In my professional life, someone I really look up to is Kathleen Finch.

LeBron's been like a big brother to me, watching me play and giving me pointers on just little things. I really look up to him.

There's so many things Thierry's taught me, just how you go about being a professional.

Give me someone I can look up to, show me someone I can love.

In a very real way Norman [Lear] godfathered me into my career. He was the best mentor anybody could have ever had.

When I'm hiring leaders, I pay a lot of attention to what their peers and what people who report to them say about them. We want people who relate well with their peers and cooperate in an exchange of information rather than being overly competitive.