Jeremy Sumpter Quotes

I love working with kids, talking with them and listening to them. I always encourage kids to reach beyond their dreams. Don't try to be like me. Be better than me.

I like to be supportive and a role model.

Yes, I do strive to be someone young women can look up to.

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

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

It's just incredible how people come up to me and say, 'Gabby, you inspire me to do anything I can set my mind to.' It's truly an honor.

When I see these young girls who are dreaming the dream that I'm living, it's very very exciting and it puts a big smile on my face.

When I was a little kid, I looked up to other people, so I hope that I can inspire little kids.

Hopefully, I can be a good role model for kids, and they can grow up to follow their dreams just like I am.

I find my motivation from everyone who looks up to me and my teammates. From the little girls that look up to me and tell me they want to be like me when they grow up.

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.

Young kids get motivated by everything. If they see a great dancer, some of them would want to become a dancer. If they see a great soccer player, they want to become a soccer player.

I want to inspire kids.

That always pushes me when I see Mbappe and Marcus Rashford doing well because I know they are probably looking at me and seeing what I'm doing and it's probably pushing them.

When you have an icon that wants you to succeed, it's awesome.

I want to be a role model for all young people.

I like to give kids motivation and tell them my story.

Meadowlark inspired me to play for a long time. I thought, 'If he could do it, I can do it.' The legacy that Meadowlark leaves is something that every child and adult can benefit from.

I'm a teacher, a motivator. That's what I do. And I'm a protector on top of that.

Basketball is just a platform for me to inspire people.

I may not be a role model, but I most definitely could be motivation for a lot of people in the hoods.

People see me doing something so all of the guys from my walk of life feel like if he can do it, I can do it. That just keeps spreading and spreading and spreading.

Make it your business to draw out the best in others by being an exemplar yourself.

Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic

I look at tennis as a bit of a platform to hopefully touch lives and encourage people.