Quotes About Role models

For me, people like Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar and Ajay Devgn have set the fitness bar very, very high.

Scoring, that's my thing... Didier Drogba, Samuel Eto'o, those were the guys that we looked at as kids like, 'Man, they're doing it, and they're doing it at a high level.' We would see them on TV. So, it wasn't much about basketball, to be honest, it was just those type of athletes. Those guys were the guys that we looked at as kids.

I've worked with incredible people that have set amazing examples for me.

My parents, I've always said, are two of the hardest working people I know.

I grew up watching the careers of Tyson and Bowe. I always wanted to follow in their footsteps in becoming a world champion. But I've always been my own man.

I surround myself with guys who are pretty successful, good people, and I think the two biggest influences in my life lately have been Tim Tebow and Ryron Gracie.

Around sixth or seventh grade, I fell in love with Tim Duncan and his all-around game. That's when I started watching him. Then my father introduced me to Hakeem Olajuwon. Those were the two guys I modeled my game after.

So many people: Lucille Ball is the earliest incarnation of a woman I thought was funny, Joan Rivers, Roseanne, Carol Burnett, Gilda Radnor, down to current times, where you have Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, and Kristen Wiig.

I love to read books by women I look up to who are smart, funny, and interesting, like Tina Fey's 'Bossypants' and Mindy Kaling's 'Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?'

For Lennon and me, we grew up with Laverne and Shirley or Lucy and Ethel. For us, those are our inspirations. And I think Amy Poehler and Tina Fey led the way for us to be fearless in the way we kept shoving our message and our comedy voice down people's throats until they listened.

I never tire of the heroes that I knew growing up.

I am just tired of writing about heroes that we're dragging down to our level, and I want to write about heroes that we want to be.

Every young player is hungry to play and to win titles as they have seen their idols do it.

It isn't just sports people that need someone to look up to - everyone needs that: LGBT people, the general public. To be honest, it's nice to feel that I can inspire so many people in so many areas of public life.

To be honest, I still get awestruck when I meet my heroes and the people I admire. I think that's only natural.

We strongly believe that children should not be exposed to smokeless tobacco or see such products being used by their on-field sports heroes.

Kids growing up today will have what I never did growing up, which is somebody across that screen reflecting who they are, and showing them what is possible.

You don't have to be a "person of influence" to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.

It's deep in human nature to look to the top to define our own behavior,

I was into comics because these were my real male role models, even though at the time, I didn't know it.

Those who say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look.

I think the culture today is very, very different from what it was in the '60s, and I feel lucky that I grew up at a time when I had these very strong female role models.

Cosplayers love Disney princesses. We all grew up with them. We identify with one or more princesses.

Dite alla gente di vestirsi come i loro eroi.