Quotes About Inspiration

What guy didn't want to be an astronaut growing up?

I like the fact that, as an actor, one day I can be the president. I can be an astronaut.

Like a lot of kids, I wanted to be an astronaut when I grew up. With me, it stuck more than most kids. Ever since I was little, I wanted to do it.

In the '60s astronauts were rockstars. Everyone wanted to be an astronaut.

One of the astronauts I came to admire the most is John Young.

I got into astronomy through an interest in religion.

Anyone who doesn't know anything about art knows the name of at least one artist.

I feel that every actor should do at least one movie with Tigmanshu Dhulia.

We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs.

As a 12-year-old when I won my first gold in Athens, I wanted people to know what the Paralympic games were.

Four Games is incredible. Especially as an nine-year-old watching Athens 2004. To think as a kid then I would not just go to one Games but four.

I really didn't have one particular athlete I liked growing up.

That's what you feel as an athlete. Pretty much our job is to make the impossible happen every day. It's like magic, you know. I like that.

Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.

We know that as a Christian athlete, people are watching, and so we want to be the best example we can be and show that we are different - that Christ has changed our lives.

I don't see myself as disabled. There's nothing I can't do that able-bodied athletes can do.

Just imagine if women's sport was on the TV all the time - how many more female athletes we would have?

Athletes are very cool to me.

So many athletes who have been close to me have been everything to me.

Athletes have all the influence in the world. Everyone wants to hear what you have to say.

I grew up looking to all those Jewish athletes for inspiration.

I'm really proud, just seeing a lot of the kids that have been inspired by me. There's a lot of great athletes all over the world, and some of them don't have the access or opportunity to play the game of golf.

There are so many kids in Africa who adore these athletes in the NBA and see themselves in them, even though we're so far removed.

In Africa, kids don't look at black athletes and say, 'They're different from us.' They look at them and say, 'That can be me.'