Phil Heath Quotes

You always have something to learn from people who have been through more than you. Be open and receptive to what they know.

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

Don't pretend to know everything. I've been blessed to work with a lot of veteran actors, and I soak up lessons from them like a sponge.

I didn't say I was that smart, I said I went to class and I enjoyed what I was doing.

Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it.

Know or listen to those who know.

When you sit at the feet of an elder, it changes you.

If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.

The best people to listen to are those who have already been successful accomplishing exactly what you are seeking to accomplish.

I asked questions when I was a stripling, and it is not my business to ask questions now, but to teach people what I have discovered.

You just try to absorb as much as you can from someone who has won as many races and championships as he has. Career wise, he's been the greatest thing that's happened to me.

People can look to me as a teacher, but I consider myself a student of hip-hop.

There's something to be learned by listening and absorbing and watching before you start telling the people who have been there how to rearrange chairs.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

There's a wealth of information and knowledge you can gain from sitting down with people who are successful.

If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.

Elders are the books of the young.

What I'm proud of, we learned from our lessons.

When I was first starting to achieve success in the WWE, I got to be surrounded by the last class of true greats, and they all had little tips and secrets. You learn a lot from watching somebody work.

If you get a chance to coach against one of your mentors, and a guy that taught you almost kind of the foundation of what you know about this game, I think it would be a fun, humbling opportunity.

Bill Belichick has been an awesome, awesome guy to learn from.

Everyone who has had success in his or her field of endeavor has had a mentor along the way.

I think Jay-Z is probably my best student, and I can say that he listens, and that's what always made him special.