Youth Mentoring Quotes

I was a nursery school teacher, and I worked with youth groups. I loved that job. It was exhausting, but you got a lot back - all their purity and insight and innocence is so on the surface, and they're so unrepressed; they'd really scream at you and then give you a massive kiss.

I think all coaches look at it as a major part of our job: to build young men, not just ball players. To put the right things in front of them, and help them mature as men, not just as players.

I coach young people. I have a group called BTP - Broadway Theatre Project.

The right way to begin is to pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.

I try to not to step on any coach's toes as far as what I'm telling the young guys or what I'm trying to give them.

What we do best is we target the young men and women who are on the fringe. They could go either way. Maybe they have been in trouble before, but not serious trouble. ... We cherry-pick them and circumvent them away from the gang members and drug dealers ... (and encourage) them to hang out with us and become a Guardian Angel.

[On the press:] I love working with children, and I have learned to be very patient with them.

In my teens, I worked as an aide in my community supervising and mentoring youth in various programs and delivering lunches to needy students.

The charities closest to my heart have always involved helping children in some way.

My freshman year, I started working with a group called Touchdown for Kids.

My husband and I have been involved with foster youth since our early 20s. Right out of college and not yet married, we spent weekends mentoring a family of young girls.

I have a thing about working with young people. I adore them.

I taught guitar lessons for a long time for a living before I got on the road. I really enjoyed hanging out with kids, talking about music with them, and trying to influence them in a positive way.

As a college student, I worked as a mentor, and that got me involved in working with young people long before I became a foster parent.

The main thing I do now is I coach kids, and all of these stories along the way are based in reality.

I'm a pretty active person. I love yoga, crossfit, Zumba, and got to get that occasional hike in at Runyon Canyon when I can. I also love mentoring youth.

Yes I do like children ... Girl children...about eighteen or twenty.