Quotes About Role model

I'm not really as cool and collected as 'Mrs. Funnybones', but she is the woman I want to be.

I want my daughter to see that I am a professional and have commitments, but that I'm there when the family needs me, and so is their father. In some cases, more so.

Even though I'm not with their mother, it's important for my kids to see adults in a committed and happy relationship. They need to see a strong relationship. You don't have to settle.

If people want to compare me to Brock Lesnar - there's worse people to compare me to.

People compare me to Batistuta, and he is the player I base myself on.

If I have to be compared to somebody, it is to Martha Stewart.

It's brilliant to be compared with such a player as Rio Ferdinand.

Marc Gasol, everybody compares me to him. I try to look up to him and see how he plays and adjust my game like him.

There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did.

I try to play like Kohli and compete with him.

It's such a huge honor and compliment when someone tells me I'm their hero... but, why me?

I understand that a lot of girls feel encouraged by what I have been able to do, but I've never felt like I'm a role model. I'm not concerned with building a great legacy or anything because I'll be dead so it won't matter.

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

Seeing my mother struggle with her weight confused me: I looked at her and thought she was beautiful, she was my mom. And this woman, who I looked up to everyday, couldn't see her own beauty?

When 'Joy Luck Club' came out, I kind of became a role model for the Asian acting community. I started to talk at colleges and emcee charity things. I'm much more connected to my sense of being Asian now.

Growing up in the Philippines, I wanted to be so much like my dad. He taught me simple survival stuff.

There are so many little girls who follow me and look up to me. I'm their role model, so I have to make sure I'm always being professional and not putting any swear words out there - just really putting positive things out there on the Internet.

People can say I am a terrible role model because I swear all the time or that I fight people. Look, I don't want little girls to have the same ambitions as me. I want them to know that it is O.K. to be ambitious. I want them to know that it is O.K. to say whatever it is that is on their mind.

The thing that got me to change was when my kids would come and tell me I was swearing on TV, so I knew I wanted to make a change.

My first idol was a Swedish goalie, Peter Lindmark.

My older sister Celia is an actress as well. She's a little bit older than me. So, in my formative years, she was always performing, and we would always go see her do things. And so, that just made me want to be... like her. Maybe if she was an Olympic swimmer, I would probably be an Olympic swimmer by now as well!

I love swimming, but I love knowing that kids see me as an inspiration.

It really was my brother who got me involved in swimming. I wanted to be just like him and do everything he was doing.

It's so weird to turn on a switch and be the role model for all women, for all African-Americans. That doesn't happen that easily. It just doesn't. And so I don't act up in public and I don't do anything weird - because my sisters are watching me, not because the world is watching me.