Magnus Carlsen Quotes

With young kids watching and hearing the news, we have to be on our best behaviour. I think it's really important that we inspire the younger generation to take up the game. It could turn them away. That's not what we want.

Footballers have a great opportunity to be a good example because the kids want to listen to you and be like you in many ways.

I don't care what anybody says: a pro athlete is going to be a role model. I tried to use that as a positive influence, to let kids know we are regular people.

Everyone should try to live their life like they'd like to be a role model.

I think I've always wanted to be a role model, and I think ... everyone should try to live their life like they'd like to be a role model. I think it's like the thing keeping me out of jail.

Athletes know kids look up to them, and it's important for athletes to be responsible.

I hope young athletes can imitate my good side only, not the bad side.

I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.

Galley Molina's a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.

I think we, as pro coaches, should have a consciousness towards having an image and a role model mentality for kids.

It's great to be somewhat of a role model. I want to be a positive and good role model and lead by example and try to do the best I can. Playing good golf definitely draws attention, but I want to have a good attitude on the course and do the right things.

I don't want to be a bad role model.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

Whether we like it or not, we are high-profile athletes. We're role models. Kids come up to me all the time to talk and it makes me remember when I was a kid and I got to meet Jerry Rice and how much that meant to me. And how we've got to set a good example.

I realise that every time my face is on TV or I'm playing in a tournament, that I am a role model for a lot of people and a lot of kids do look up to me. I try to do my best in that regard and put myself across as honestly and as modestly as possible, as well.

I make an active effort to remain a positive role model to kids. They need people to show them there's another way.

There's no crime in being a poor role model.

Anything you can do to help someone, I just think it's so important because there's a lot of kids that look up athletes of all size and shapes in a lot of different fields, not necessarily in the basketball field. They get involved emotionally with those people because there's something about certain athletes that people rally around.

I just want to lead by example.

I know personally as a young player when coaches came to my school that is someone you want to be like and I think that helps massively.

Footballers need to be aware kids look up to them.

If I can be a role model for kids, then that's fantastic. That's what I want to do.

I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.

The reason I play so hard is that somewhere out there is some kid who has never seen me play before, and I don't want to disappoint him.

Everybody talks about being a role model. But if you look up the word 'role' in a dictionary, it describes playing a part. Everything I'm into, it's real to me. There's nothing fake about it.