Conrad Burns Quotes

The goal of my Foundation is to give young people a chance to better themselves and establish a base for a successful future.

What we want is for our young people to be skilled.

I'm very passionate about the use of sports in young people's lives to build self-esteem and self-discipline and self-confidence. It's been a big thing for me.

I'm a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I'm all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road.

Doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it.

I've watched what coaches do for young people in our country.

We started a movement... to build character, citizenship and confidence in young people.

Each year I host a leadership summit in my district, and my biggest advice to young people is get experience. Get your foot in the door.

The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.

Developing better people should be the number one goal for any coach when dealing with kids. In trying to develop better people, we are going to develop more and better pros.

If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent, every counselor, every teacher, every professor, every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the three circle concept.

There is still much work to be done to help our students secure good-paying jobs and achieve their ultimate goals, and in Congress, I'll continue to support Career and Technical Education programs.

We have to instill in them the skills they need to succeed at a young age and open up their imaginations to the very real opportunities they can be afforded if they put their minds to it.

As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.

I didn't really want to be the coach who wins but the coach who educates.

You're not going to become a great manager overnight. You're not going to become a great public speaker or figure out how to raise money. These are the things you want to start the clock on as early as possible.

I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them.

The true value of sport is more than the skills that young people learn.

Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and academic skills.

Education does loads of things for girls that won't surprise you at all - it provides self-esteem, teaches important life skills, and offers the kinds of choices a good education can give anyone.

Scouting teaches a boy to take care of himself and stand on his own two feet.

We would like to have every middle and high school become a place where there will be lots of examples of youth competence and confidence.

A good education is the most important gift we can give our young people.

I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing. It can help build confidence, make them feel good about themselves. It helped me build my ego and even start to get acceptance at school. I'd bring things to class that I'd cooked at home.

I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.