“I'm a coach or a mentor.”
Scott Hobson
“It's great. But it's all about those teams that won it, ... I've got a mentor in [assistant coach] Tex Winter. He says, 'You're only a success at the time you perform a successful task. After that, you can't get a cup of coffee on it.'”
Phil Jackson
“I'm the coach I am because of Thom Budge. I've had great mentors, and I look to Thom Budge as a mentor and almost as another dad to me in the coaching field.”
Matt Williams
“This has been some of the roughest two or three weeks as a coach. You call all your mentors, your dad, you're asking coaches what do you do when you're going through these type(s) of situations, you're reviewing tape and talking to guys and part of the problem was we're playing every other day. We haven't had much time to work on things and guys are having to learn on the job, which means you're going to lose a few games.”
Derek Thomas
“He not only was my soccer coach, but a mentor for life. He was a friend. I have nothing but best wishes for him. He was always very interested in us doing well outside of soccer. I last played for him 12 years ago and every year he calls me on my birthday. He was just always very supportive of everything in your life. It wasn't all about athletics. I'm a fairly successful guy now and a lot of it is due to him.”
Chad Brown
“He was my mentor. He taught me how to coach,”
Keeley
“I hope, that in the end, we acknowledge that we should be advisers, mentors, teachers (and) coaches. And when it comes to family and individual decisions, not be the all-knowing father figure of the past. We must care about them; care about them passionately. We must care about them, not for them.”
Charles Abell
