Quotes About Role model

I do think art can and often does offer models of behavior, or at least suggests possibilities of behavior, but I dislike the aspirational tone of 'role model.' Roth's gift with Portnoy was large precisely because it had no aspirational element and no precise directions. Like any good gift, the less strings we find attached to it the better. The offer was not: You, too, can be like Portnoy. The offer was: Portnoy exists! Be as you please.

Carl Pendleton's the absolute best. He's everything you want in a student-athlete.

I want my kids to be proud of their dad and not to go to school and hear abuse. One day they will read many things about me and I would like it to be about football.

I love Virat Kohli, he has achieved a lot.

More than any of my achievements, I feel it's a real honor that children are learning about me, that I'm a source of inspiration.

I was crazy about Elle Macpherson. She modeled, acted and did everything. She was a huge example for me.

I admire Obama.

She's an immensely powerful woman, and I just admire my mother very much.

I always admired Graeme Souness.

I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.

Brenda Starr is how I learned to draw. I copied her. I admired her. She had a career.

I always admired my father because he was a man that never put on any airs, you know. And I always tried to be that kind of person.

I admired Stephen Fleming.

There's kids out there that like me, so why aren't I taking the time to give back to them? If they adore me or they look up to me, just to whatever extent, I've got to show them that I care about them as well.

I just want to be Patty McCormack. I want to spend every year aging the way she has.

All women like to look up to their men.

Paolo Di Canio was my all-time hero.

Whatever the circumstances, playing alongside the best in the world is something I can tell my kids about.

Rigondeaux is one of the guys since I first started boxing that I've looked up to and I was at the same weight as him for a while as an amateur, so to train alongside him was amazing.

Just to see kids who are inspired by you is an amazing feeling.

One of the guys I used to watch was Georges St. Pierre. Watching him, I thought this guy is awesome, he's doing all these amazing things... I was 16 at the time and I thought he was like 32, and it turned out he was like 21-22.

Oh, Amy Poehler. I just love her. I think she's like a dream woman.

I always watch Anderson Silva and I always watch his fighting style.

I think, now that I am a mother, I look at other mums like Jo Pavey and just mums that go back to work and work incredibly hard, and I have so much admiration and appreciation for how hard it is.