Quotes About Influence

Tell me your heroes and I'll tell you how your life will end up

My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.

I'm not a role model... Just because I dunk a basketball doesn't mean I should raise your kids.

The Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue really sets the social standard for what people expect the perfect woman's body to look like, and a lot of those bodies usually look the same.

The coach is the team, and the team is the coach. You reflect each other.

I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father.

Winning isn't worthwhile unless one has something finer and nobler behind it. When I reach the soul of one of my boys with an idea, or ideal, or vision, then I have done my job as a coach.

There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.

When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.

Decisions are more apt to be accepted when you've listened to suggestions first. I wanted them to see the reason behind what I asked of them, not to do things just because I said so.

All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.

The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.

What most people didn't realize in the Western countries is that here its not a question of having supporters, its a question of getting these votes to the polling stations.

Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider.

He was constantly on me about the job that I was to do and the responsibility that I had upon the campus. And how I must be able to carry myself because people were looking.

Leadership is one of sports intangibles. Guys can score, guys can fight, guys can skate faster than anybody else. But not everybody can say, Follow me.

To be honest, I still don't feel like I'm a representative or an ambassador for the sport.

We saw very little of the real Jack Buck behind the microphone. He would touch people in ways that we will never know. Jack was much more than just an announcer.

Cheerleading gave me a love of sports, which I brought to the Senate. I can talk to the good ol' boys about college sports because I follow it like they do.

Managers don't have as much leverage as they used to have. We can't really be the boss.

But I just think as a captain, everybody's different.

I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.

Unfortunately, inner feelings and potential are often stunted by our parents, relatives or peers.

Rosie is a Hall of Fame player, and I wouldn't be in the Hall of Fame if it weren't for him.