Seth Godin Quotes

I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians.

When kids want a picture or autograph, you reflect later on and realize you did something good. Then you see them come back five years later, they're all grown up, have their own lives and they tell you how much you inspired them. You're like, 'Whoa.'

You ask yourself, 'What do you want your legacy to be?' I'm content at this point to say, 'Those who follow me.' Romeo Crennel, Bill Belichick, Sean Payton, to name a few. I think I've got a pretty good group, so far.

There's nothing better than having a positive impact on kids.

I'm not having to go outside and switch the role model hat on. It's me, and it's important for me to leave that legacy to help inspire younger players because I didn't have a role model growing up.

My father was my greatest inspiration. He was a lunatic.

When I was 15 or 16 and I started climbing up the ladder of success in amateur boxing, a reporter asked me, "What do you want to be?" I think he was expecting me to say, "A champion." I said, "I want to be special." I don't know why I said that, but I didn't just want to be a fighter. I wanted to have an impact with people, particularly kids.

This kid [Janks Morton, Jr.] was so special, although he's not a kid anymore, obviously, but he was there from day one of my rise through boxing. You know how the years go by and then, when you stop to reflect, you realize that someone was a part of your whole evolution as an individual? That's what I share with Junior.

If Bret went in there and stunk the place out, then they probably wouldn't have brought the little brother in. So just by being successful himself, it opened the door for me.

I touch the future. I teach.

Ask any successful person, and most will tell you that they had a person who believed in them... a teacher, a friend, a parent, a guardian, a sister, a grandmother. It only takes one person, and it doesn't really matter who it is.

Every kid needs a mentor. Everybody needs a mentor.

Teachers have a chance to mold someone, inspire them. I hope all teachers realize that.

I love little kids looking up to me, young players looking up to me, respecting me.

It's nice to know you're working on something that will mean something to kids.

I never really thought about being a role model. I started really young, so at 10 years old, I was still very much the person who needed role models. I wasn't really prepared to be one, but it's always something that I've taken very seriously.

I know that I'll end up being a role model for many, many people out there for all kinds of reasons.

Now that I am much older, I have had a number of sax players tell me I was responsible for them playing sax. Some of them I have admired over the years.

To a great leader there is no worthy seed.

It would take me 10 lifetimes to achieve even half of what Wilberforce achieved.

It really is an honor if I can be inspirational to a younger singer or person. It means I've done my job.

When you look at some of the greatest people and players in the world they all stand for something outside their working lives.

When I was a little kid, I looked up to other people, so I hope that I can inspire little kids.

The wonderful John Avildsen was a hero and father figure who was really present in my life even though we didn't have day-to-day or year-to-year.

It's amazing what one positive role model in your life can do in five minutes.