Elana Meyers Quotes

What's so amazing in today's society is people look up to football players. And as a football player, you have a platform. And it's so much more important than any touchdown or trophy or anything you could win with football. Its taking that platform and be able to influence people.

I'm not preaching about things you should do, I'm not political or anything. I'm probably not the best role model.

If you can be a good example to other people, why not try to be that person? I have a bit of a people pleaser in me, but not so much so that it's out of control.

We've always been a band that stood up for what we thought was right.

In all of our actions, we must seek to be living examples of the changes we wish to see in the world. By walking the path, we make the path visible.

It feels great to be a role model and I'm very careful with the things I do. I'm not perfect, I do make a lot of mistakes, but I try my best.

I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to create a qualitatively beneficial and meaningful impact on society. Perhaps, my belief is along the old saying that 'it is always better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.'

There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the make the first move - and he, in turn, waits for you.

There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.

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

It's not what my job is about. I'm not out to make a political statement. I want to stand for something, but more by example.

Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.

I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.

Pearl Jam doesn't just sing about issues they care about. These guys walk it like they talk it.

My belief is that you live your life by example, and not by a caption on a magazine!

I always feel compelled to lend my voice to things I strongly believe in.

I don't want to be remembered as the girl who was shot. I want to be remembered as the girl who stood up.

Let us seize the special opportunity that is ours to act boldly and decisively at a time when the eyes of our fellow citizens, both present and future, are upon us.

It's something my mother believed in: If you are in a position of privilege, if you can put your name to something that you genuinely believe in, you can smash any stigma you want, and you can encourage anybody to do anything.

I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.

I think that, as athletes, sometimes we have the opportunities to make an impact. When it's authentic, I think there's room to share your opinion in an appropriate way.

There's only so much I can do to effect change - and really, the thing that I can do that's most effective is to work and to do good work. That, I feel, is speaking out in its own way.

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

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 think it's so important for somebody like me to stand up for the things I believe in and speak up on things I don't think are right.