Kelvin Sampson Quotes

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

If you're a young man, and you're being coached by someone like Guy Lewis, you're going to become a better man.

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

The thing I like about college football so much is you can affect these guys a lot more when they are 18-22, 23 years old in terms of people and having a chance to be more successful. They are still a value type development, where you have a chance to help them mature a bit and help them be a little more successful in life.

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

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

Every camp I do, I'm always trying to figure out how I can help kids get better, so holding the actual title of coach, that doesn't matter to me. In life, I'm a coach. I think we all are.

Coaching is something I want to do.

People think that coaching is about winning football matches - which, of course, it is - but throughout my career it has also been about helping people become better, more able to deal with life and be more successful in their lives, on and off the football pitch.

There's natural mentoring that goes on in my life every day.

I want to spend more time with those kids. I want to dedicate my time to train those kids and teach them what it takes, what they need to do to get to this level.

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

Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.

I'm a better and more educated person because of basketball.

Here, I have an opportunity to affect the lives of a lot of young people - and not just on my football team. I'm not kidding myself that that would be true at the professional level.

I credit NTI, truthfully, with everything as far as where my head is and what my goals are and dreams are. I would say it was probably one of the most influential moments of my life, being there.

I think right now the way society's going, I think role models are important, and kids need direction. If I didn't have that direction growing up, who knows what I could be doing, because I've been lost many times in my life, and I've had to have someone guide me back on the right path.

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.

Obviously, if some young girl wants my advice and wants me to be her mentor, I would be very happy to offer that. But I don't really see myself as a coach.

The whole thing is develop players, develop them as people, develop teams.

It's not just teachers, but coaches are helping to shape the young people of tomorrow.

Our job as a coaching staff is to mentor, to discipline and to educate young people.

I'm especially thankful for being able to coach so many talented young men over my 18 years here. It has been so rewarding to see these players come to OU and mature over a four- or five-year career, and not just on the field. To play a small part in their growth is what I will always cherish the most.

I've always enjoyed the coaching side, working with young players, trying to improve them and to make them not only see football different but to see life differently.

The reason you get into coaching in the first place is to help and develop, try to make people better.