Quotes About Role models

The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Children have more need of models than of critics.

I've really had two heroes in my life. My father and Ronald Reagan.

I have two people that I mainly look up to: Magic Johnson is one of them. He just blew everything out of the water. He didn't make much money in basketball, but since basketball has been over, he's investing in the community and making a lot of money at the same time. The next one I look up to is Sean Combs, who has always been a hustler.

The thing is that my idols have always been the types of guys who could do anything: Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Sinatra, Dean Martin; and when you look up to people like that, you don't accept that you need to be compartmentalised.

A lot of people tend to glorify the role of satire and comedians. They put them up as role models, as fighters for the truth and against tyranny, and I think that's overrated.

I'd see people being really successful, whether it was my teammates or big-name fighters like Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson, and I'd think, 'I want to be a legend like that.'

There aren't that many female role models in science. There are a couple of women, but mostly you've got Neil deGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins, Lawrence Krauss - they're all guys. Bill Nye the Science Guy. I love that guy, but it's all guys.

I study Floyd Mayweather, Mike Tyson, Roy Jones Jr and Sugar Ray Leonard.

I think the likes of Alex Scott and Rachel Brown-Finnis have been unbelievable in terms of the punditry they do.

How come we play war and not peace?""Too few role models.

I grew up listening to such strong female solo artists. I love Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears.

Athletes are given a really special platform. It's our duty, as athletes, to be role models.

It's an interesting thing to play the heroes of our society, like cops and firefighters. They're the basic heroes that, as little boys and little girls, you look up to as the first heroes of your small, specific community.

There are a lot of people I look up to and respect, but there's nobody really specific I would call a hero.

In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated personalities. I read almost every speech of Nehru.

I wish my daughter wasn't spending time thinking of Kim Kardashian or Rihanna.

I wouldn't say there's a need for the Spice Girls, but I'd say there's a place for the Spice Girls. There's certainly a place for them, but you don't promote the Spice Girls at the expense of promoting what I think are good role models for girls. You need to create some kind of equality.

I look up to the Spice Girls. I love the fact they're still close; they went after what they wanted but still support each other.

The Spice Girls and Fran Drescher were such important parts of my childhood. There was something about them that allowed me to be myself.

I was into Batman. I was into Spider-Man.

First favorite character growing up was Spider-Man, second was Wolverine.

I think every kid is a 'Spider-Man' fan at some point.