Quotes About Idol

When I look in the mirror, I don't see a person who's made the kind of impact that Mia Hamm made on the game. She's still my idol, the greatest player and the greatest teammate. She achieved so much in so many different ways. What she did for women's soccer can't be measured.

We cannot all be great, but we can always attach ourselves to something that it great.

When I was young, I looked up to Andriy Shevchenko. He was so elegant, and on the pitch as well.

Verlander is a guy every right-handed power pitcher looks up to since the beginning of time.

Let's face it: Robert Plant is hot!

I admire Romario a lot, he was my idol together with Ronaldo, but I do not have anything to prove to anyone. What I have to do is play football.

I think when people ask me, 'Who's your favourite player?' it's hard for me to answer.

Barcelona have always been a dream club for me.

Being coached by Zidane? At the start it was a little difficult, I grew up watching him play. It's Zidane after all!

My dream collaboration would be Elvis.

I grew up watching LeBron and asking him to follow me back on Twitter, going to his camps. So just to be able to compete against a player like him and be a few shots away from beating him and his team to go to a championship is something I will always remember.

You know, kids come to see me in the same way that their parents would go to see a rock concert.

Vince McMahon is one of my all time idols in terms of building a brand and sustaining a great company.

My first idol was a Swedish goalie, Peter Lindmark.

Elvis is symbolic of a lot of things, dreams coming true being one of them.

'Tis mad idolatryTo make the service greater than the god.

Many of us pray often, but we do not get the nourishment from our praying. This should not be so. We are not praying to an idol; we pray to the living God. He is the very God who is now in our spirit. When we speak to Him, He responds in our spirit. When we exercise our spirit, we realize Him within our spirit. If we merely exercise our mind and pray from our mouth, the Triune God within us has no way. He is not in our mind. but in our spirit. We must exercise our spirit (1 Tim. 4:7).

The most unlucky generation is the one which couldn't produce a hero to look upto.

When a philosophical thought expresses a concept of what it then names "God," this concept functions exactly as an idol. It gives itself to be seen, but thus all the better conceals itself as the mirror where thought, invisibly, has its forward point fixed, so that the invisable finds itself, with an aim suspended by the fixed concept, disqualified and abandoned

Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.

I was at a party in Beverly Hills, and everyone in sports was there. Magic Johnson, Wayne Gretzky, Kareem. And I spotted my idol—Hank Aaron! I walked up to him and introduced myself. He said, "I know who you are. You made a great decision going to the USFL." I was shocked. Then he leaned in and whispered, "Tom, you always have to get the money. Get the fucking money. Because they don't care about you." —Tom Ramsey, quarterback, Los Angeles Express

My first hero to wear the number 10 shirt was Ronaldinho.

I have been a fan of True Religion since I saw Sachin Tendulkar wearing them.

As a kid I loved John McEnroe. They called me Mac because, while everyone else liked Borg, I was crazy about McEnroe. I tried wearing headbands and sweatbands, and whooping at people. It didn't quite work.