Doug E. Fresh Quotes

I feel like my role is to be one of those voices who reaches the youth.

I can be the guy to motivate people from all different backgrounds and all different walks of life.

I find it so important now to be a role model and a figure. And I know that may sound strange to some people, but most important is my connection with my fans and the connection that they breed with one another.

I've always found it not only easy, but enjoyable. It's necessary for us to reach out and I'm speaking for myself here. I certainly have a sense of responsibility to reach out to these people in the theatre who might look to someone like me for some guidance.

I do feel I have a responsibility to the youths. For real.

In every school, community center, city hall, and state capitol, there are women who are making their voices heard and standing up for the people they serve - women who aren't just demanding change but finding ways to create it. They are making an impact, and along the way, they're inspiring others to do the same.

It's always great to engage with people. You never know who you can make an effect on. And I love interacting with the fans, hearing what they have to say and joking around with them. Anytime I can reach out online and give encouragement, motivate people, be a better citizen, that's what it's all about, man.

The heavyweight champion of the world shouldn't just be heavyweight champion of the world. He should use his position to help other people, such as myself.

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.

I'd like to be out in the city every day, listening to what people are saying and asking about what they need. I'd like to inspire others by doing as much as I can to help people who are trying to make a better life for themselves and others.

The true privilege of being Mayor is that I have the opportunity to be everyone's neighbor.

I am privileged to be able to work for the people of Hawaii in whatever capacity.

Any politician is to a certain degree a mentor. They preach something.

Transformed people transform people.

I have to tell you, I'm proudest of my life off the court. There will always be great basketball players who bounce that little round ball, but my proudest moments are affecting people's lives, effecting change, being a role model in the community.

Like leaders in many walks of life, my business has been to serve with, and for, others.

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.

Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all.

Mentorship is critical for young people. Mentorship by others for my children is very high on my agenda.

Teach the great what is useful to him, be his aid before the people.

One often needs someone smaller than oneself.

It's important for Oklahoma to have people in a position to make a difference. The only way we can do that is to have people in key places.

Doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it.

I am in politics because every day, I get to work to make the world a little better - for my kids and for yours.

All of us are mentors. You're mentors right here and now. And one of the things I've always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.