Mentorship Role Quotes

I like teaching. I would like to help out with the young catchers; be there for them and obviously, you know, what it takes to get here. That's the biggest thing, I think.

I know personally as a young player when coaches came to my school that is someone you want to be like and I think that helps massively.

The coach doesn't have to play the sport as well as you do. They have to watch you and get you to be your best.

My dad was my manager when I was young, but as a professional, Frank Rijkaard.

I think eventually I want to become a teacher, like my father wanted to be, and hopefully positively influence the next generation.

I'm proud to be Archie's son. Being a quarterback, I had my mentor and hero living in the same house.

When I grew up, I simply didn't have mentors that said, "Science is important. Science helps you build a country. Science makes a country powerful." And that's such a simple thought, but when you think about what's powered Taiwan and Korea and Silicon Valley and Cambridge.

I'm not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.

A good teacher is someone who can help you to get back to a teacher within.

Our job as friends, mentors, parents, and writing coaches is not to write anyone's college essay. That's cheating. Plus, it sends a discouraging message to the teenager that he or she can't be trusted with this important assignment. Trust the student to write the essay, but verify that it gets done. Gentle editing and proofreading are allowed.

It's different as a coach because you feel responsible for a lot of people. Even though you don't take a shot, you don't get a rebound, you feel like you just want people to succeed and you want to help them any way you can.

From the age of eight until 15 or 16, every time I was out bowling leg spin I was thinking about my dad and when you've done that it stays with you. There are lots of things he did which enabled me to be the player that I was. It wasn't me that wanted to be a cricketer. He made me 90 per cent of the player I was and the person I was.

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

Of course a lot of the players in that clubhouse have respect for me and talk to me about everything. So with my experience, I certainly try to help them, to make things easier for everyone.

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

I want to be looked at as a positive role model and a person who supports the community. I want to help the kids who are in need and need a role model to look up to to show them the way.

Sometimes Kellen calls me 'Coach.' Sometimes he calls me 'Pops.'

Everyone mentions the fact that I am the first African GM. I think it means nothing unless you impact people in Africa. That's what we're trying to try to continue to do - impact the game and make an impact on people over there.

In TNA, if I wrestle, I'm able to help one person. As a road agent and head of talent relations, I can help an entire crew.

Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.

I came to L.A. when I was 19, and my two roommates were blue-eyed, blond dudes. I helped coach them, and they both landed pilots.

The majority of the research I do is archaeological research, but to me, as a professor, the most important thing is to encourage and mentor students.

My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.

With the premise that we look for technical co-founders to run a company, I view myself as being a coach to that technical co-founder. I can help them with their business issues, with the growth issues of taking a company from a very early stage to something much larger.