Quotes About Influence

If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, 'This is the way you want to be'. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people.

Footballers need to be aware kids look up to them.

I always give my best on the field, but I think modern footballers have a big opportunity to make a difference in peoples' lives.

These days, you can watch many different sports; you are saturated with it 24 hours a day. And young boys all want to be footballers because you don't even need to be that good, and you can still earn £100,000 a week.

CR7 is a model to all footballers.

As footballers we have a certain responsibility. We have the responsibility to talk about things.

In America, I think most actors wish they were rock stars, but I think in England most people wish they were footballers.

There is such a strange microculture to footballers' fashion and style and the design that goes around it.

I respect and admire my family, but they've never expected me to walk in their footsteps.

No one can fill Senator Daniel K. Inouye's shoes - but together, all of us, we can try to walk in his footsteps.

I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and do comedy films.

I felt pressure to follow in Madonna's footsteps, and I didn't want to base my career on sex. So I began to change how I saw myself.

My brother was the one who really gave me the desire to follow in his footsteps. Also, it was really Ronaldinho and Ronaldo, the two Brazilian players, who also inspired me to a future in football.

People expected me to be creative and true to myself. In that way, I follow my father's footsteps.

Following in my father's footsteps is not a big deal to me.

The leadership group I had to follow is very easy to walk in their footsteps and try to be like them. You try and set that same example for the guys coming up.

I watched how happy broadcasting made him. And if you're close with your parent and you see they're happy doing something, it's only natural you want to follow in their footsteps.

I have to continue until there's another Filipino following in my footsteps.

Following in the footsteps of Berry Gordy, I always admire what he did.

It's like Christians who want to be like Jesus. We're just trying to follow in someone's footsteps. Might as well be The Beatles.

It would be a dream to follow Fernandinho's footsteps, because he is my role model.

My history of singing has always probably been closer to a David Bowie approach than, for example, an AC/DC approach.

It's a question of whether or not we the people are still in charge. And by 'we the people,' I mean, is this truly a government of and by and for the people.

My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.