Mentorship Quotes · Page 50

The greatest thing about a coaching position is this: You just worry about the day in front of you.

— Bret Bielema

Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best

— Spanish Proverb

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

— Nicole Richie

“You do not need someone’s permission to learn from them.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I was a university fencing coach. It was an unpaid opportunity, though, because I was underage.

— Jackson Wang

If you hire a coach, I believe you should let them do their job.

— Joe Ingles

Many of us have been touched by the magic of a great teacher. I know I have.

— Bruce Rauner

High school coaches sometimes are better coaches than I am.

— John Calipari

“my mentor and co-teacher lovingly gave me some feedback and told me that my content was useful but the way I engaged…

— Kathy Obear

My best investment, as cliched as this sounds, is the money I've spent developing myself, via books, workshops and coaching. Leadership begins…

— Robin S. Sharma

No teacher, professor or anyone else. But a hungry stomach, an empty pocket & a broken heart can teach the important lessons…

— Diwakar Dutt

My job is to call attention to the things that I think are the difference between winning and losing. If I can't…

— Bill Parcells

What is a coach? We are teachers. Educators. We have the same obligations as all teachers, except we probably have more influence…

— Joe Paterno

I have always had someone in my life that I consider my reading mentor because I come from a family where reading…

— Stephen McCauley

Rita Guarino is one of the best technical coaches I have had in my career - often she demonstrates a specific technique…

— Eniola Aluko

“Every month they give an award to the teacher who took a risk and failed most dramatically, and that award is as…

— Grant Lichtman

Growing up in Highland Park, in high school, I had some very influential teachers: I had a math teacher who taught calculus…

— John M. Grunsfeld

When schools truly become centers of the community, where you have extraordinary teachers, the best teachers, the best principals, great nonprofit partners…

— Arne Duncan

My father is a marvelous mentor, and if you're going to have a mentor, the ones that work best let you make…

— Brian Roberts

I always say that there are manufactured coaches and natural coaches. I am one of the natural ones. I do not have…

— Massimiliano Allegri

I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the…

— Haim Ginott

I now understand what Nelle Morton meant when she said that one of the great tasks in our time is to "hear…

— Parker J. Palmer

I'm glad I went through the training because I've met such great mentors and lifelong friends/collaborators along the way. Also, any training…

— Jade Hassoune

The individuals who intervened in my life, transformed it, didn't do so in a vacuum. One was a manager of a children's…

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

I try to do all of the work I'm asked to do and make sure I do exactly what the coach says.

— Thomas Partey

What I really think of myself as is a person who's great at negotiation coaching and consulting.

— Christopher Voss

I just felt like every situation I was in, I had a teacher that really was motivating me.

— John Smoltz

I know what it's like to be told by your teacher that you'll never amount to anything.

— T.I

I was always most of the time working in clubs as player and coach to win titles.

— Ronald Koeman

The task of a teacher is not to work for the pupil nor to oblige him to work, but to show him…

— Wanda Landowska

“View everyone around you as a teacher; from some, seek to learn what not to do and from others, what to do.”

— Amey Hegde

“The best teachers are those that can influence even the poorest of all learners.”

— Kim Panti

Obviously, being in the league for so long, you do have something to offer as a coach.

— John Stockton

The difference in a teacher and a mentor is that a mentor is interested in our soul.

— Robert A. Johnson

Apart from my parents and coach Tarak Sinha, my wife has been a big support, and so has been my two daughters.

— Shikhar Dhawan

I need a coaching job in the NBA. I'm restless and I need money.

— Robert Parish

I'm trained as a teacher; that's the only thing I've got a certificate for.

— Quentin Blake

When the teacher tells you you're a dunce and you're never going to amount to anything, that sticks with you.

— Jay Blades

We sin then we ask for forgiveness. God is my teacher and I, his apprentice.

— Raghib Clitso

I am grateful to Allan Donald for his guidance and subtle nuances that he taught me.

— Bhuvneshwar Kumar