Mentorship Quotes · Page 58

Go ball. Go ball. I'll worry about the coaching. You just get out there and ball.

— John Calipari

Teacher: 'Why are you late?' Me: 'Why does it matter. You still get paid, right?'

— Anonymous

I've had great writing teachers and mentors and great success with my first book.

— Uzodinma Iweala

The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher.

— Robert Breault

I'm a teacher, a motivator. That's what I do. And I'm a protector on top of that.

— John Calipari

Right from growing up I always wanted to be a teacher, but my dad discouraged me.

— Sara Davies

It would be great to have a coach I could have for more than two years, you know.

— Tim Hardaway Jr

The big thing about coaching is, however you are, that's how you've got to do it.

— Mike D'Antoni

One thing that the coaching staff and the assistant coaches did a really good job of working me on was shaping myself…

— Pat Connaughton

You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group…

— Darrell Royal

Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique…

— Betty Buckley

Any time you have a coach asking you what you think and what you want to do, it makes it easy for…

— Ben Wallace

When I pray, I ask for guidance in my life to be the best person I can be, to learn what I…

— Julia Butterfly Hill

My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and…

— Chesley Sullenberger

“Let me address one more significant factor detracting from new business development success today: a severe shortage of sales mentors.”

— Mike Weinberg

Being a coach's son, they're hard on you. When you say you want to be great, they do everything they can do…

— Will Grier

Mentors provide professional networks, outlets for frustration, college and career counseling, general life advice, and most importantly, an extra voice telling a…

— Gerald Chertavian

To be a great teacher, you can't simply be looking at how to earn your income. And with a priest or spiritual…

— Lewis Hyde

In one of the largest studies ever done on the effects of executive coaching - over 70,000 respondents - we learned that…

— Marshall Goldsmith

In senior year at college, Paula Vogel was my playwriting teacher; she is the first person to introduce me to the notion…

— Lynn Nottage

I can remember having meetings with my coaches when things were going bad. I told them, 'Hey, we've got to be positive.…

— Dave Martinez

“What grade does she teach?” “Eighth. Where kids make the jump from nice, innocent kids to something a lot more complicated and…

— David Baldacci

I think I have some ideas on coaching, but listen, coaches work harder than players. The hours they put in, the headaches…

— Tim Howard

My mother, a teacher, encouraged me to use my creativity as an actual way to make a living, and my father, a…

— Greg Iles

I really learned how to steal bases from my coaches my freshman year at NC State.

— Trea Turner

Successful people ask questions. They seek new teachers. They're always learning.

— Robert Kiyosaki

I have been a player and now I am the coach, so I understand both the roles well.

— Anil Kumble

There's always that one kid who sharpens his pencil while the teacher is talking.

— Anonymous

I have a mental coach, which is super cool, but it's also kind of eerie at times.

— Willie Cauley-Stein

The best evangelists, the best preachers, the best teachers are desperate people.

— Tullian Tchividjian

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

— Elbert Hubbard

My father and my mother were professional footballers and have also been coaches.

— Ada Hegerberg

I feel like a coach when I'm on the court. I just see basketball as a team sport.

— Jose Calderon

I love to nurture, I love to help people. I love to brainstorm. I like to mentor.

— Debbi Fields

“The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.”

— Elbert Hubbard

Being a high school teacher was wonderful, but unsustainable: I needed a way out.

— Garth Greenwell

My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts.

— John Lasseter

I'm not going to be a coach or a director - they are not roles that I would like.

— Mauro Icardi

I'm happy to keep doing science and being a mentor to anyone who asks for advice.

— Mildred Dresselhaus

Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher.

— Gautama Buddha