Quotes About Role models

I remember me being that kid growing up. Me being the kid that grew up going to games and being a ball boy and wanting a high five from Blake Griffin or the other players.

I remember, when I was young, I had idols who inspired me to go for my dreams, and I just want to give the same back.

I remove a lot of the pressure from myself by saying I'm not competing with my parents. They are the persons who taught me my ideology. They actively practiced what they preached. They're the exemplars and the role models. So how does one compete with a mentor?

I definitely look to people like Usain Bolt and Sanya Richards and especially Allyson Felix, being an American athlete who went pro right after high school. Of course I would like to replicate that career, but obviously as a 1500-meter runner.

I was always really inspired by watching the older girls competing, just seeing other Olympians do great things, and I just really wanted to be a part of that whole experience. And to be able to represent USA was always a goal of mine.

We always talk about how important representation is. It's so important to see someone that looks like you - whether you're African American, Asian, Indian or whatever your background is - doing incredible things. It's just motivation to go out there and do incredible things yourself.

I really do believe that representation matters in'media. When you see people that look like you, especially as a kid, you can think, 'Oh, that's something I can do because there are people that look like me that have done it in the past.'

Paul Gascoigne was one who I watched as a young boy. He was a hero to all of us really. Chris Waddle was one for me too, just because of where I grew up. Where I'm from, he was somebody who was representing England and playing in the Premier League, and as a young boy I always wanted to do both.

I'm happy to be for people what Scarface, Ice Cube, and Rakim have been for me.

I don't have a lot of style icons. There are not a lot of people today who I look to.

I identify with the Clint Eastwoods and Harrison Fords. Those are my heroes.

I never really idolized any one golfer.

Code writers, they are my idols.

You can only learn from the best players out there, the best people, best idols, role models, whatever you want to call them.

I have good idols and I definitely look up to good people.

I didn't really have idols growing up, but some of my friends were huge fangirls.

I grew up thinking Margaret Cho and Lucy Liu were my idols because that's it.

It's cool for young guys to see what their idols are doing.

I think I would fan over Beyonce or Adele. Those are my two girl idols, definitely.

It's true that when I started out, I was more a fan of attacking players and one in particular: the Brazilian Ronaldo, Ronaldo Luis Nazario de Lima. Another of my idols was Claudio Caniggia, an Argentinian forward with long hair, who I liked a lot. It's because of him that I started to grow my hair long!

Like all children, I spent a lot of time looking for idols.

I think we all grow up with idols and things like that.

I've already played against some of my biggest idols.

Basically I wanted to be a male comedian; those were my idols.