Chris Hughton Quotes

I wanted to emulate my parents - Mum captained India in basketball, and Dad won a bronze in hockey in 1972 Olympics. My focus has always been to achieve excellence whether in the field of tennis, in the corporate field, in the art of acting or in motivating youngsters.

A lot of people say Michael Jordan and all of that. But Magic Johnson and my dad were my role models.

I want my performance to be at the highest level of anybody in the company. I want to make everybody step up to me.

Choose great people and shine in their shadows

As a modern-day role model, I'd have to go for Tiger Woods. I'm also a massive Sachin Tendulkar fan.

If you want to be like the greats, you learn from the greats.

Our athletes are our heroes.

Billy Konchellah with his World Championship titles, Paul Ereng with his Olympic gold and Wilson Kipketer with his World records are my role models.

It's an awesome responsibility, not only to maintain the level of success the NFL has, but to build on that.

I always wanted to become a good role model for kids as a professional football player. Unfortunately, I didn't attain that through football, but I was smart enough to realize that professional wrestling provided another opportunity for that.

If there was no Bill Bowerman, there would have been no me. He had about as much of an impact on my life as any one person could have. He taught me about competition and ingrained it in me. He taught me not to praise ordinary performances.

I know that not everybody gets to coach an NFL team, and I want to do that as well as I can all the time. That's my motivation. I want to help my players to be as good as they can be.

When Hoad and Rosewall were at their best, and I was a youngster, they had no qualms about saying, 'Hey kid, let's go and play.' That helped me to get up the ladder.

There's a lot of guys that I obviously admire. The Gary Paytons, me growing up in Seattle being able to watch him play. Even my peers now, the Patrick Beverleys and the Kawhi Leonards, I admire those guys.

I admired Stephen Fleming.

Everybody is inspired by someone.

Right from the start of my career I was surrounded by people like Jacques Kallis, Mark Boucher and Graeme Smith, who gave 100 percent in every performance.

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.

I loved Mia Hamm, and I really looked up to Julie Foudy as well, who is one of my mentors.

You always want to hear from the best about how to be the best.

Cristiano was an example for everyone, with his dedication to work.

My ambition with Al Ahli is to be an example for the local players. They must learn that professionalism is the path to success.

Listen, I believe I should be winning Sport Personality of the Year because if it's about sporting achievements and it's about personality, then I'm a winner hands down.

Produce great men, the rest follows.

If You are a man who leads, that your way to govern may freely travel, You should do outstanding things.