Patrick Vieira Quotes

I love working with young people which to me is a big kick.

Coaches around the country are influencing the next generation of men in a positive way.

I want to make other people around me smarter and more powerful.

Seek out counsel and be a mentor to people, because then they learn how to be mentors.

I try to develop others. I get a great deal of joy out of helping people who, over the years, I've spent a lot of time mentoring - and just trying to get them to another level.

I fell in love with coaching. I loved interacting with young people, having the opportunity to make a tremendous impression on them.

All of us are mentors. You're mentors right here and now. And one of the things I've always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

I am there for the athletes I coach.

True success for me is allowing players to be better than I was. That is what I went into coaching for and I've not lost sight of that.

Obviously, I talk to young players and help them a little bit with my experience.

We really believe that mentorship is a powerful tool.

I was impressionable at that age, and my high school coach did such an unbelievable job helping me, so I want to do that for other kids.

When I was coming through, I had very little support from the older players. I always said to myself that if I make it, I never want to be that kind of person. I have a passion for seeing young players develop, so every young player who comes into the first team, I am willing to listen. I will give him everything I have.

I would love to mentor youngsters.

Encourage the many; mentor the few.

I've put in 63 years now in the big leagues as a player, coach, manager. And now just being around these young guys, it keeps you going pretty good.

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

Every kid needs a mentor. Everybody needs a mentor.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Galley Molina's a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

I had to help to coax the performances and I really enjoyed that extra responsibility.

I'm a mentor to anybody who's interested.

I do feel I have a responsibility to the youths. For real.

I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would have my very own school - no way. And I had no idea I'd be coaching girls. It's wild.