Ryan Garcia Quotes

It's wonderful to work with someone with mentor status.

Look at people that influenced me - but I didn't know if I had that sort of 'I'm going to take you under my wing' person.

Every kid needs a mentor. Everybody needs a mentor.

Age is rarely a limitation to being a mentor.

I don't necessarily have one mentor or 'a' mentor. But I do pull inspiration from people, and that's always kind of served me well.

I learned so much from Ric Flair... just listening to him guide me early in my career.

Me being a veteran presence, I want to see all my guys be successful.

When I pictured myself in the NBA, I always imagined myself with an older guy taking me under his wing.

Anyone who has been successful and has knowledge to share is a potential mentor.

If I could be that guy to help that young superstar to emerge into that superstar superstar, I would love to do that.

My mentors were very good.

When I was coming through, I had very little support from the older players. I always said to myself that if I make it, I never want to be that kind of person. I have a passion for seeing young players develop, so every young player who comes into the first team, I am willing to listen. I will give him everything I have.

Rod Strickland has been influential. He gives me a lot of advice, good and bad games; he is someone I really look up to a lot.

You are only as powerful as your mentors.

I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.

I look up to a lot of people, but outside of my parents, I've never really had a mentor.

I do feel I have a responsibility to the youths. For real.

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

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

Oh, man, if in real life I was as cool and suave as Coach Taylor and had all the answers, things would be easier.

I had the benefit of being guided by Lew Wasserman. I think part of being a mentor is you have to have confidence in the people you're guiding and mentoring.

I think a role model is a mentor - someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

All of us are mentors. You're mentors right here and now. And one of the things I've always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

I feel like I've been very blessed to have some great mentors through the years, starting with Don James, who was my college coach, who really inspired me to want to be a coach, which is not something that I really had in mind.

I'm just glad that I get to talk about the superstar, my mentor - Marcus Mariota. That's who I try to be like. He's been a big inspiration to me and my family. I couldn't thank God more for him being bestowed into my life.