Steve Harvey Quotes

I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn't even go into my family, who had the most influence.

My current mantra is that sometimes we need teachers in our lives. I never had that in my life, parents and stuff like that; I tried to stay on the outside of them or anybody that had that kind of influence.

I feel like my place is to connect hip-hop... with the youth, the older, the middle. Just everybody that's listening to me. My place in hip-hop is really to just connect and show positivity. Put my vibe out there.

We have lots of heroes today - sportsmen, supermodels, media personalities. They come, they have their 15 minutes of fame, and they go. But the influence of good teachers stays with us. They are the people who really shape our lives.

Everybody is influenced by someone.

We have to have positive male role models.

I feel like kids in general, not just African-American kids, are influenced by what they see, both positive and negative.

Not just my parents, but teachers, friends, mentors - a host of people are to be thanked for any success I have had, and a whole lot of just plain luck.

The only reason we make good role models is because you guys look up to athletes and we can influence you in positive ways. But the real role models should be your parents and teachers!

There's nothing more special than talking in your community, and using your celebrity to uplift people and help them.

Teachers are unparalleled in the role they play in children's lives.

The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

I had many teachers that were great, positive role models and taught me to be a good person and stand up and be a good man. A lot of the principals they taught me still affect how I act sometimes and it's 30 years later.

People need heroes, in music and every aspect of life.

We've seen the kind of social impact a professional sports team has on a city. A team brings high-profile role models into your community who are healthy and they're great images for the city to gravitate toward, especially for kids.

I've definitely had mentors, whether parents or friends or actors who I like.

Anything you can do to help someone, I just think it's so important because there's a lot of kids that look up athletes of all size and shapes in a lot of different fields, not necessarily in the basketball field. They get involved emotionally with those people because there's something about certain athletes that people rally around.

Teachers are important in this world.

I'm happy to be for people what Scarface, Ice Cube, and Rakim have been for me.

You see how powerful some of the things you say and you do can be on people, especially young people.

Pembroke is my foundation. Everything that I've become is because of those people.

Athletes have all the influence in the world. Everyone wants to hear what you have to say.

Viola Davis, Patti Smith, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Julianne Moore. I could go on forever listing names. However... my greatest inspirations have, without a doubt, been my teachers, friends, and family.

All my heroes are teachers.

We rappers are role models.