Dave Winfield Quotes

Growing up as a kid, I watched Jeremy Shockey... Tony Gonzalez... Antonio Gates. I looked up to them. I watched what they did to be successful.

When I was 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, I had so many people I looked up to and was so inspired by all these different people. It's cool to be in that position.

I have a lot of role models.

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

I like to watch the best in every sport, so definitely like Tom Brady or Tiger Woods, his comeback story, or even Usain Bolt. I look up to those guys just because they're great.

You look up to your heroes and you shouldn't be intimidated by them; you should be inspired by them.

You know, watching Dan Marino and Steve Young get nominated to the Hall of Fame... those guys are unbelievable and they did it for so long. I'd love to play like those guys, but there's still a long way to go and a lot of growing.

And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

Like I said, when I was a kid, they inspired me.

My parents are my major supporters. I look up to Denzel Washington, Jack Nicholson and Jim Carrey. They have all opened my mind and helped me with my craft.

It is so weird to be on this side of that, because when you're starting out, and it seems like you're starting out for so long, you look up to the people who have made their mark. And you sort of want to be that.

Never had any idols, ever. I never had any posters, nothing.

I can't picture myself being the people I always looked up to.

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

My idols are all older.

Like all children, I spent a lot of time looking for idols.

On my wall, along with my favorite football players and baseball players, I had Marlon Brando and Sir Laurence Olivier. These were childhood idols.

I didn't have one single hero. Many footballers I looked up to and said, 'Wow, I want to be like them,' but be like them not just as a person but also for their skills.

We can all learn something from people we admire.

A lot of my friends and guys who I have watched and grew up with and who have been at my house are Hall of Famers, and I just know them as Ozzie Smith, Eddie Murray, Kirby Puckett, Dave Winfield... I know these guys like my older brothers and uncles, the guys who took care of me.

I had a lot of idols like Fernando Torres, Steven Gerrard, Jamie Carragher, and Xabi Alonso - all of them. I really looked up to them.

You think about when you're kids and see these guys on TV, and now you're in the same clubhouse as Chipper Jones and Bobby Cox.

I think we all grow up with idols and things like that.

When I played Little League, I looked up to the big leaguers, too, and collected their baseball cards.

I've been inspired by people's work, but I never grew up with posters on my bedroom wall or obsessed with one person.