Harvey Penick Quotes

I didn't go to university, and so, every time that I work, I'm looking for a teacher in a way. I'm looking for people that I can learn from and to have the chance to work with people that I admire.

Training, that's my specialty.

People don't understand that, when I was at WCW, if I wasn't wrestling that night, I was down at the Power Plant teaching. I was teaching people how to do stuff, but every time you teach someone, you learn more. The more you learn, the more you teach. The more you teach, the better you get.

I teach some of the guys stuff that I've learned.

If we, as coaches, aren't teachers, we are nothing

When I was coaching I always considered myself a teacher. Teachers tend to follow the laws of learning better than coaches who do not have any teaching background. A coach is nothing more than a teacher. I used to encourage anyone who wanted to coach to get a degree in teaching so they could apply those principles to athletics.

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.

It's about somebody initially knowing more about it than you do but eventually you learn a lot about it yourself and practise the skills and techniques that you've been taught.

Teach and practice, practice and teach - that is all we have; that is all we are good for; that is all we ever ought to do.

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

If you're a coach, you're a teacher.

I had the chance to learn from some really talented people who have taught me a lot.

They call it coaching but it is teaching. You do not just tell them...you show them the reasons.

Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.

No science is speedily learned by the noblest genius without tuition.

The boy's got a lot to learn and I've got a lot to teach.

Learning is the most important thing, no mater how you do it, or where you do it, or who you do it with.

To teach is to learn twice.

In general I like a guy who is athletic, somebody who can teach me something. Whether it's teaching me a new way to cut on a wave or teach me a three-point conversion or teach me how to dribble a soccer ball. There's something really cool about that.

You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

I am a teacher. It's how I define myself. A good teacher isn't someone who gives the answers out to their kids but is understanding of needs and challenges and gives tools to help other people succeed. That's the way I see myself, so whatever it is that I will do eventually after politics, it'll have to do a lot with teaching.

When one teaches, two learn.

Training has been such a huge part of my life and career I hope to keep going with it.