Sid Gillman Quotes

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.

We're not Seattle East. We're our own Atlanta, and there are definitely things I learned from Coach Carroll. He had probably the single biggest influence on my coaching career.

Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson.

You ask yourself, 'What do you want your legacy to be?' I'm content at this point to say, 'Those who follow me.' Romeo Crennel, Bill Belichick, Sean Payton, to name a few. I think I've got a pretty good group, so far.

Bobby Cox had the biggest influence in my career and probably the second- or third-biggest influence in my life.

My manager is definitely a mentor as well as Usher.

I would say Triple H is the biggest influence on my career. He's almost like a father figure. If I slip up, or there's a problem, he lets me know.

For me Sir Alex was my father in football. He was crucial in my career and, outside football, was a great human being with me. Talent isn't everything. You can have it from the cradle, but it is necessary to learn the trade to be the best.

Every kid needs a mentor. Everybody needs a mentor.

David Moyes is someone I'm forever indebted to.

He's helped me do so much in my career, helped me be the player that I am. If there's no Larry Brown, then there's no MVP, Allen Iverson.

I owe a large part of my success to Joe Brown, who helped me both as a player and a person.

Ava DuVernay is my personal Phil Jackson. She's a perfect coach.

Watching my dad go through all of the different career paths in the entertainment industry that he has, has absolutely influenced me.

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.

Phil Jackson is a role model, and basically a coaching idol of mine. He's someone I really tried to model some of my coaching philosophies after.

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

I'm queen of mentorship.

Des Bulpin discovered me and, along with my dad, would be the biggest influence on my career. I remember him telling me when I was 15 that Jermain Defoe and I would play together for England when we were older, and he hasn't been too far wrong.

There's not a day goes by that I don't ask, What would Coach Saban do?

Hillary Clinton was a hugely important mentor for me. I don't talk to her every day, but sometimes mentorship means being able to watch somebody's leadership from afar.

I've always said, other than my dad, coaches had the greatest impact on me.

Whatever I am today is because of my directors. Without their sheer hard work on me, I wouldn't be an actor.

When we talk my biggest influence, I have to say Van Gaal. He threw me in the deep end.

I don't like to brag about it, but there are people I've worked with at the start of their career, and they've all become very, very successful.