Evel Knievel Quotes

I don't think kids should have role models. They're disastrous.

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

I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys.

I enjoy being a role model for kids.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

I'm the one person who wears the words 'hustle, loyalty, respect' on my T-shirts and merchandise. My audience is children. It's very flattering to see a kid wear your T-shirt; it's even more flattering to have a dad come up to you and say, 'I watch you with my kid. Keep doing what you're doing. You're a role model for my son.'

Kids are great imitators. Give them something great to imitate.

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

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.

I have a great responsibility, not only to my fans, but to kids who are going to look up to me.

All great directors - however, they do it - make you want to be good. I hope I do it. It's like being a parent, a psychiatrist, a disciplinarian and a friend.

Footballers need to be aware kids look up to them.

I want to inspire kids.

Growing up, I really didn't have a lot of role models.

Yeah, football can change a person's life, it changes a lot of people's lives. You can see the kids we work with. You can you make their day just by them meeting you, that's lovely, that's great.

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.

I'm a role model to a lot of kids.

The best part is when parents come up to me with their kids, and they say, 'My daughter started gymnastics because of you.'

I really just think that we've got to have a positive influence on kids in general. And really understanding people are going to look up to me, so why aren't I doing something to be positive about it?

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

We cannot control what others choose to do, and so we cannot force our children to heaven, but we can determine what we will do. And we can decide that we will do all we can to bring down the powers of heaven into that family we want so much to have forever.

We are proud to be role models.

So you never know who you touch. You never know how or when you'll have an impact, or how important your example can be to someone else" (20).

Example is more powerful than precept.

As a kid, I was obsessed with the Who. They were the most important band to me. Songs like "I'm One" helped me get through high school.