Rajeev Suri Quotes

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.

Certainly every manager I've played under you take things from them. That's just part of gaining all that knowledge over the years. Some good, some not so good, but it's all part of the process.

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.

There's no shortcut to being a manager or coach.

Guys that are young in the league. Guys that you get to teach them your way. It's not a bad thing. It's actually a good thing. It's working for them. Teach them that way, and I guarantee they aren't as stubborn and hard-headed as I was, which sometimes is good, sometimes is bad. But like I always say, I'm not going to change who I am.

I think you live and learn each year, whether you're a head coach, coordinator, or business manager. You learn different things that work and different things that don't.

That's part of the process of the longer you play, you can help the guys around you.

Mentorship is important for everybody, but it can come in a variety of forms. It can come from your boss or another colleague who may be more of a peer, or someone who reports into you if they have a lot of experience or creative experience.

I know my first years sitting on the bench, largely behind Rickey Green, was a great learning tool for me.

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

I'd like to manage someone, a young talent that maybe doesn't have the mic skills.

There's so many things Thierry's taught me, just how you go about being a professional.

Any captain will take some time to settle down. Nobody is an outstanding leader straightaway.

Any rookie that can develop a mentorship with a former quarterback like Jim Kelly, it's going to be huge.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.

Each year I host a leadership summit in my district, and my biggest advice to young people is get experience. Get your foot in the door.

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'm a mentor to anybody who's interested.

One person who has taught me a lot and inspired me a lot was Peter Falk. I was fortunate enough to have worked with him in this movie called 'Vig.' He brought my work to a place where it literally shouldn't have been for another two or three years.

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

Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.

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'd never managed anyone before, so I don't have a lot of experience. But I'm lucky - I have a lot of team members who have a really honest relationship with me.

My manager is definitely a mentor as well as Usher.