DeAndre Yedlin Quotes

It's wonderful to work with someone with mentor status.

When you get a bit older, you gain more experience, and you try to put it to good use, to help yourself in different ways and also the young players.

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.

In life, you'll often find that having influence and providing sound advice is a good thing, even if it attracts criticism or requires some sacrifice.

Age is rarely a limitation to being a mentor.

When I pictured myself in the NBA, I always imagined myself with an older guy taking me under his wing.

I'm now the elder in the position of doling out wisdom and trying to mend fences.

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

Look at people that influenced me - but I didn't know if I had that sort of 'I'm going to take you under my wing' person.

I've always been one of the youngest guys on the team. But now I'm one of the older guys, one of the more experienced guys, and I have to be more of a leader. The guys are looking up to me, asking me questions and looking at me to step up.

Every kid needs a mentor. Everybody needs a mentor.

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.

I look up to people that are much older than me, so being a mentor is a full time job.

Like leaders in many walks of life, my business has been to serve with, and for, others.

He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one.

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

I had the benefit of being guided by Lew Wasserman. I think part of being a mentor is you have to have confidence in the people you're guiding and mentoring.

I don't necessarily have one mentor or 'a' mentor. But I do pull inspiration from people, and that's always kind of served me well.

My manager has been my manager since I was 17, and he says that he's supposed to be smart for me when I can't do it for myself.

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

I wish there were people when I was young that I had a respect for and looked up to that I could have been guided by. I didn't have that, and I really do wish I did because I think I would've learned a lot more.

I've always tried to help younger players and to talk with everyone.

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

Wiley has given me wise words a few times.