Dimitar Berbatov Quotes

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

Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.

When you've lived as long I've lived, you see things from a bigger lens, and you try to share that with the young guys coming up, including being patient.

Some of the best advice I've gotten was from William Hurt and Harry Connick Jr. I've really learned a lot from both of them.

When you're the younger guy, you're kind of only looking after yourself. Obviously you have to be a bit selfish in terms of what you're doing. But when you're the older guy you have to look out for the younger guys as well. If they're making mistakes, they need help, then you help them.

My mentors in life are much older than me and have been through life. They can actually give me some sound advice on what I'm going through.

A lot of guys, especially the young guys, I try to do anything I can for them - on the field, off the field, anything.

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

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

I think a role model is a mentor - someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

Age is rarely a limitation to being a mentor.

It's so important to seek out mentors and knowledge from those who have come before you, and I don't think I would be where I am today, both professionally and personally, without each and every mentor who helped me along the way.

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

We really believe that mentorship is a powerful tool.

He's always with me; I'm always asking. He can be my father, or he can be my coach, or he can be an ex-player. I can ask him so many things. He teaches me a lot, and I'm really thankful.

You're never too young or too old to be a mentor.

I had a lot of veteran guys who taught me things.

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

Yonder showed me the ropes about life, showed me the ropes about baseball life; he showed me a lot that I couldn't have learned by myself.

I try to take a couple of young guys under my wing and tell them what I've learned, because you can't teach nobody if you don't know anything.

Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.