George Karl Quotes

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

I know I have a responsibility as a role model to children and I try to fulfill that.

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

When you speak of role models, when we talk to our kids, everybody is a role model, everyone, just as you look at a Michael Jordan to be the terrific athlete he is.

I honestly do feel that I am a role model for young people.

Being a role model is a privilege.

I've always kind of lived my life to be as much as possible a positive role model for children.

Honestly, I didn't know I was a role model.

Golf, to its foundation, is a game of integrity and one that encourages us to give back, kind of be ambassadors, role models, I guess, for kids - whether they like golf or not.

Not everyone's role model material, but we do have a sense of responsibility because kids listen more to us than they would their parents.

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.

Footballers need to be aware kids look up to them.

We're supposed to be role models for kids.

We didn't know we might become role models but it's good that we did because if you're put in a position like this, you should try to make a difference because a lot of kids today don't have role models.

We want to be role models.

We are proud to be role models.

I always feel a responsibility to the kids, to be somebody they could look up to.

I take my role as an ambassador for the sport, and as a role model for boys, girls, mommies, daddies - whoever it is - very, very seriously. I know the impact my role models have had in my life, and I'm in a really beautiful position to be able to be that for others.

I am supposed to set an example to young players.

Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven't been good role models. To be someone that people look up to is important to me.

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

I would never think of myself as a role model.

I never really said I want to be a role model. But then when it happened I was so down for it.

Well, I always hope that I'm a role model.