Simon Sinek Quotes

It's just like being a father; you got to show them love and you got to show them the path. I don't like this role-model stuff, though.

A coach's greatest asset is his sense of responsibility - the reliance placed on him by his players.

Players respond to coaches who really have their best interests at heart.

I will lead my people by the hand along the road until their feet are sure and they know the way. Then they may choose for themselves and rule themselves. Then my work will be done.

How can we ask for our young stars to have a high level of responsibility if we are not demonstrating that same level of responsibility towards them?

Being a mentor is something that's new for me but a role that I take very seriously.

I have spent a lifetime watching kids make mistakes because they were not trained or well led or properly motivated to do well. I never faulted the kids; rather, I saw opportunity to train, to motivate, to improve leadership - not to punish the individual.

I had the benefit of being guided by Lew Wasserman. I think part of being a mentor is you have to have confidence in the people you're guiding and mentoring.

Mother never said to me, 'Stay out of trouble.' She didn't have to!

My manager has been my manager since I was 17, and he says that he's supposed to be smart for me when I can't do it for myself.

When you're a big sister, it's a great job. I don't know how little sisters feel about their job, but when you're a big sister, you're supposed to take care of everything. And you feel good about it. I do.

I love being around my teammates, and I love leading and having responsibility.

I'm from a family of 20, so I'm one of the oldest guys, I grew up a lot having my brothers and sisters walk with me to school when I had to be the guy to watch them and all these things, so I kinda learned how to develop those leadership skills at a very early age.

My mam and dad have brought me up well.

When we talk my biggest influence, I have to say Van Gaal. He threw me in the deep end.

Arsene Wenger gave me the belief to keep working and competing. He was not talking to me every day, 'I believe in you,' but it was every now and again. The right amount.

Capello put me behind Demetrio Albertini, so I had the right position. I had to follow him like a shadow. It was to learn the basics, but at the same time, it was also a great vote of confidence.

Coach Smart, he's given me so much freedom to sort of grow into who I was.

All my directors helped build my confidence.

I let the coach do his job.

Mentorship is the key to extraordinary success.

I've always found it not only easy, but enjoyable. It's necessary for us to reach out and I'm speaking for myself here. I certainly have a sense of responsibility to reach out to these people in the theatre who might look to someone like me for some guidance.

Parents must not only have certain ways of guiding by prohibition and permission, they must also be able to represent to the child a deep, almost somatic conviction that there is meaning in what they are doing.

My parents are my role models. All they've done for me, they're just major people in my life. They've stood by me and got me where I am today.

I take my mentoring responsibilities very seriously.