Saquon Barkley Quotes

I have never emulated any star or celebrity completely, and I hope nobody does the same of me.

I have role models, but I take the attributes of the people that I admire, and I use them to create my best self.

You start comparing yourself to other people, you end up trying to be that person. You've got to be your own person, do it your own way. You can be motivated by somebody, but you don't have to take after them.

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.

What I'd like to get across is try your best to be yourself. I realize there are those who are much further along than you are; there are stars, but learn to be who you are and to play yourself. Be confident in that fact.

I pattern my actions and life after what I want. No two people are alike. You might admire attributes in others, but use these only as a guide in improving yourself in your own unique way. I don't go for carbon copies. Individualism is sacred!

I wanna be more like the Rihanna kind of, Beyonce kind of thing, but I don't want to compare myself to anybody, because I wanna be somebody new, too.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

Don't try to be like me. Try to be like yourself. Try to be very good at being yourself.

I never said to be like me, I say to be like you and make a difference.

I've never tried to emulate anyone. I've never idolized people, I prefer instead to get off on attitudes.

Anyone who wants to be an entrepreneur like someone else is actually looking in the wrong direction. You don't look out for inspiration, you look in. You have to ask yourself how can I be better today, at solving the problem I am trying to solve for my company. I wouldn't encourage anyone to be like me. Just be like you.

People always ask me who my role models are and who I want to be like, and I don't wanna be like anybody; I wanna be me. I look up to a lot of people, and they have had great influences on me, but I wanna be original and different.

Reese Witherspoon made me better. Just working with her, being with her, I learned so much. I want to be like her.

Don't try to be anyone else. Don't try to emulate what someone is doing. Play to your strengths.

I certainly wouldn't want to be a Mini Me of any of the people whose footsteps I've followed in.

Everything I do is me. I don't like taking ideas from people unless they're the G.O.A.T.

I'm my own person and my own player. Not that I don't admire other players and try and do similar things.

I don't really compare myself to anyone. Growing up, sure you have your favorite players or guys you try to emulate, but I'm just trying to be the best me I can be.

I really admire Ed Sheeran. He seems to have really beaten his way through and I think that's fantastic. He's his own man - good for him. But there aren't many of him out there.

I have been my own man. I feel like I can be me but I have obviously learned from the best.

I look to many different women for inspiration but try to make things my own.

Ronald Reagan was the best Ronald Reagan ever, and Ronald Reagan was a cool guy. You're not Ronald Reagan. You can't run as him; you can't relive his career. You can't just have somebody else's career. You have to be you.

Most of us only find our own voices after we've sounded like a lot of other people.

I'm a dreamer. I watch people. You don't try to become them because you could never become any of those guys. But you hope that some of it, you know, comes off on you at some point in your show, some point in your writing, that it happens to you and this light just shines on you.