George Steinbrenner Quotes

Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He was beyond question one of the greatest players of the century.

I want to be a professional athlete who plays for the love of the game, never quits trying to give my best and is a good role model for all of the kids who look up to baseball players.

Boxing is a sport, but it's also entertainment. I wanted to transcend the sport and be considered just not as a fighter, or a champion, but someone very special.

I want to be remembered like Pete Rose. 'Charlie Hustle.' I want people to say, 'Wherever he was, he was always giving it his all.'

With the responsibility of being a professional athlete, I believe that it is on us to go out there and help people.

Since turning professional at 18, I have travelled the world playing the game that I love and consider myself a global player. As the World No.1 right now, I wish to be a positive role model and a sportsperson that people respect, and enjoy watching.

I think a great athlete transcends eras.

I think it's huge to set a good example. Whether you like it or not, as a professional athlete you are always going to be projected out into that spotlight of judgement. People are always going to judge every single thing we do and I think it's cool to just be real with yourself.

I want to make sure I'm a role model for young girls and play the best I can for my team and my country.

I don't have anything against Georges St-Pierre. I think he's a great fighter. I think he's a nice guy just like everybody else, and he's a great role model. I would love to be that too if I was in that position.

Tom Brady blew me away. Who's the most famous athlete of our generation: Tom Brady? LeBron? Messi? Ronaldo? Serena Williams? Maybe I haven't been around enough to know how the biggest stars really act. But Brady is a normal guy.

Rahul is the kind of person who young cricketers can look up to; not only because of his success but also because of the way he conducts himself.

I don't watch cricket much but I admire Sachin Tendulkar. I like the way he has conducted himself over the years. He has been such a huge star for so long but has not had a single controversy against his name.

If you had a son, it would be a great thing to have him grow up to be just like Gil Hodges.

For me, the most important thing is to continue to play well and to be a positive figure and hopefully a role model for kids as well.

I like to think I've been a good example and an inspiration to some people. And some people say that about me, but I'm just going about my work and doing what I do best. I'm a very professional 'Me.'

I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.

I want to be the best player to ever play this game.

Once you become a professional athlete or once you do anything well, then you're automatically a role model ... I have no problem being a role model. I love it. I have kids looking up to me and hopefully I inspire these kids to do good things.

I don't consciously try to be a role model, so I don't know if I am or not. That's for other people to decide.

Everyone should try to live their life like they'd like to be a role model.

Everybody talks about being a role model. But if you look up the word 'role' in a dictionary, it describes playing a part. Everything I'm into, it's real to me. There's nothing fake about it.

If I can't serve as a role model, let me serve as a warning.

I want to be known as a good major-leaguer, and good major-leaguers work to become good.

He's been an inspiration for me since the Olympics 1996.