Sean McVay Quotes

You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player.

I arrived at Shakhtar aged 19 and he taught me a lot. I am very grateful.

He's helped me do so much in my career, helped me be the player that I am. If there's no Larry Brown, then there's no MVP, Allen Iverson.

I want to thank the people at UMass, Memphis, and Kentucky for giving Ellen and I an opportunity to coach at three great institutions.

I had just left 'Saturday Night Live' when I came to 'The Daily Show,' and it just felt like Jon was on my side. I'll always be grateful to him for that. I just got the impression he wanted me to succeed, and then I wanted to succeed for him. I think that's good leadership.

He helped my career, helped me basketball-wise and every other way. I'm a big fan of Thibs.

My personal narrative - I was lucky early on in my career to have some really strong mentors. I didn't realize it at the time, but that's what really built me up.

I hardly had any coaching until I joined Birmingham where I had Dave Watson for five years. He's one of the best and I knew how important that was for me.

I had the chance to learn from some really talented people who have taught me a lot.

Since I got into coaching, Coach Carroll's been nothing but great to me and always been willing to help and share some advice and give a perspective.

Vince McMahon made me a much better businessman, and I'm super thankful to him.

I owe Bankhead a gift; she made a director out of me.

Throughout the course of my life, I've been blessed to work with extremely talented people.

I got to work for some great administrators at great institutions, and I had an opportunity to coach great players. Iowa is no different.

Training has been such a huge part of my life and career I hope to keep going with it.

David Moyes is someone I'm forever indebted to.

Most of my job and most of what I do is to mentor people. There are a lot of people I work with that I don't have investments in.

ROIers are always reaching out to me to share their appreciation for the experiences, opportunities and connections we have provided and also to express their excitement about taking the next step in their leadership journey.

I worked for some very good people who have helped me along the way and actually enabled me to have the opportunity to be selected to join the Astronaut Corps.

I'm learning a lot how to be good at what I do and also how lucky I am and take it all in and be grateful for all this late in life success I've been having and it's good to have people that have been around and successful for awhile and work with them and see how they behave and it's why they are who they are and why they're still successful.

I owe a large part of my success to Joe Brown, who helped me both as a player and a person.

England is the country where I learned my profession. They are the ones that trained me, they are the ones that believed in me.

I've been taught by everyone I've ever worked with.

Don't be afraid to take time to learn. It's good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn.

'One Minute Mentoring' is written in the parable style Spencer Johnson and I popularized in 'The One Minute Manager.' It's an entertaining story about the mentorship between a young salesperson, Josh, and a seasoned executive named Diane. As the characters learn about mentoring, so does the reader.