Nyle DiMarco Quotes

To me, the avocation of a teacher has something elevating and exciting. While surrounded by the young, one may always be doing good.

Teachers have a chance to mold someone, inspire them. I hope all teachers realize that.

I hope that I serve by being a teacher.

It feels amazing to be a role model for people with and without disabilities.

If I can be an inspiration for someone, that's fine, but just don't look down on me. Don't say, 'Oh, you're in a wheelchair.'

I was very lucky in that I had a couple of teachers who were particularly supportive.

I never want to discontinue giving kids opportunities.

Now I can give back and be a role model and an advocate for women in sport.

I've had lots of fans who come out and say, 'Listen, I can relate to Cyborg because I lost a limb,' or 'I have this cochlear implant.' It's one of those things when you actually start seeing it, when you actually start hearing about it, that made Cyborg more relevant to me than I think he ever had been up until that point.

I get people who come up to me and are like, 'You make me wanna live my dream.' I was them, so I'm like, 'Me, out of all people? No way.' Eddie Guerrero did that for me, so to have little girls and guys tell me I inspire them, I didn't know that came with the job, but it's so cool.

I want to inspire other young women of color and empower them. I want them to know that they can do and be anything they dream of.

I've not just played for England. I've done it for all the black players out there - to prove that they can do it.

What's important about my election into the CEO role at Deloitte is to provide a role model for the next generation of diverse leaders at Deloitte.

Boy or girl, the youth of the world deserve opportunity and we as leaders have to be the ones that at least create a path for them.

I'd love to be a role model for black kids, whether they play hockey or not.

At our best, we are all teachers

I feel that is more important than my work, the influence I have on my students.

My purpose... to go on with my heart and soul, devoting all my energies to Girl Scouts, and heart and hand with them, we will make our lives and the lives of the future girls happy, healthy and holy.

I think eventually I want to become a teacher, like my father wanted to be, and hopefully positively influence the next generation.

I was strongly encouraged by a science teacher who took an interest in me and presented me with a key to the laboratory to allow me to work whenever I wanted.

When I go speak to these kids through my foundation and am able to sit down and tell them some of the things that I've been through, they can look up and relate to me, and they can understand the feelings I had that are similar to what they're going through and feeling.

I've been very lucky to work on a wide variety of projects, including two long-run and top-10 dramatic television shows. That is why it is so important to offer a helping hand to the next generation of young Latinos coming up behind me.

There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.

I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.

I was raised by a single black deaf woman, so I am as independent as they come.