DeAndre Hopkins Quotes

Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done.

Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.

I worked for some very good people who have helped me along the way and actually enabled me to have the opportunity to be selected to join the Astronaut Corps.

You work with great directors and terrible directors, and so you learn; you take what you think will work for you.

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.

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

The more experience you have, the less is needed, but I feel like I have good support around me and people helping me to be the best I can be.

If someone works with me, I try to take them to the next level.

I've been fortunate enough to really work with amazing people and have incredible people lead me along the way.

You see guys that have been in the league for a long time and have taken that opportunity to not only make their game better but to make the people around them better. And to help them know things that maybe you wish you had known.

I've worked with a lot of good coaches, so I would be stupid if I did not pick anything up.

Find a great role model, perhaps someone who struggled and only really succeeded when older. Their biography and what they've done differently from you will help you. If such a person is willing to mentor you or at least allow you to work around them, great.

Getting a mentor is the shortcut to success.

When starting at the bottom, be willing to learn from those at the top.

And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble.

Growing up in a group home, and with an undiagnosed learning disability to boot, the odds of success were not on my side. But when I joined the high school football team, I learned the value of discipline, focus, persistence, and teamwork - all skills that have proven vital to my career as a C.E.O. and social entrepreneur.

You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player.

I love to be directed, and I can glean something from almost anyone.

Raymond Floyd. The man knows how to control situations. He was experienced. He didn't let me get overly excited; he kept me in check. It allowed me to free myself up, and I played really well with him.

I've grown over the years and I know how to adapt to situations, where I can go into a situation where there's a crowd of people and just take over. But pretty much I'm off to myself. And I'm totally committed to the game of football. That's why I've had so much success.

If my assistant goes off and becomes successful, and people want to work with him, I'd take that as a compliment that I'd trained them well.

David Moyes was one who, at a certain crossroads in my career, he was there. And since then, I've kicked on. That's why he played such a big role in my career.

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

Throughout my career, I was blessed with great teams and great teammates.