Quotes About Guidance

Most of the kids that I meet in the street are serious hardened criminals that I meet in the street, never had a mother and a father to love them, to protect them, to teach them right from wrong and lead them out of crime and gangs and stuff like that.

If the guidance failed or started to stray or went somewhere we didn't like or the ground didn't like, I could flip a switch, and I could control seven, over seven and a half million pounds of thrust with this handle and fly the thing to the Moon myself.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

I don't believe in that term 'self-made' - not to be offensive, but I believe everything happens for a reason, every single person you meet. Even if it's one single person giving you advice, that person helped you get to where you're at today.

I am a product of an amalgamation of different teachers. If it was just one teacher, even just my father, I would be half the player that I am today.

If I were a young coach today, I would be extremely careful in selecting assistants.

I'm convinced that what kids need today are parents - not buddies. They need someone who will exercise mature judgment.

I think a father is important for everyone. If you don't have, then maybe not so much. In the world today, it's possible that you grow up with only one parent in the family.

I just coach the way I was coached when I was young, in my formative years. I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark.

I was always told I had to be an example to my siblings. I was told to toe the line. So I had to behave.

My mother was a powerful influence. She made me toe the line. If I didn't have a perfect report card, she showed her disappointment.

A high-profile player has to toe the line and I try to lead by example. A lot of guys appreciate that, and it is an advantage to have somebody as captain whom the players feel they can look up to; somebody whose door they can knock on to talk about anything on cricket or life.

I try to not to step on any coach's toes as far as what I'm telling the young guys or what I'm trying to give them.

It's part of the captain's job to keep people on their toes.

What I do and what I love, I don't betray that. Sometimes people say you have to tolerate it. No, you have to do what you think necessary, what your heart tells you, and go where the Almighty leads you.

Being a parent is the hardest thing in the world... the psychological toll it takes on you because these lives are in your hands. I take it very seriously.

And Evie was the grown-up now. She was in the line of grown-ups behind the child.

Using a head collar or front-clip harness, use incentives to urge them to walk with you. Don't tug or drag your puppy, because they will resist following you even more.

puppies learn best from an understanding teacher.

Reminders are often all they need.

Decide early on what your puppy needs in order to feel included and satisfied in each situation (a bone, a mat, a 15-minute game of Toss after a nap), and insist on only the behavior you've outlined.

There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of the schoolmaster.

No matter how she beseeched the stars for guidance, their light remained far away and cold; they provided no answers and no comfort.

You're a virgin. You have no idea what you're asking for." "Then you will have to teach me." "Not like this. Not on a horse in the middle of nowhere.