William Morris Hunt Quotes

I make an active effort to remain a positive role model to kids. They need people to show them there's another way.

Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.

When I was a young player, I would look at players and think, he does this well, and try and pick up good points from them, or he conducts himself well, I'll pick up on that.

I really just think that we've got to have a positive influence on kids in general. And really understanding people are going to look up to me, so why aren't I doing something to be positive about it?

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

All of us growing up, if you're a professional player or a college player, you're molding your game after guys. You see guys, you see things guys do. Like Randy Moss, I'm a Randy Moss guy.

I always try and give a good example to children who follow me.

When I was young, I always enjoyed watching skilful players and trying to emulate them the same as everyone else.

I worked among many famous philosophers, and I tried to observe how they treated students. I knew which ones I wanted to be like, and which ones I didn't.

When you work with people you aspire to be like, you pay attention to them.

Watch the one ahead of you, and you'll learn why he is ahead. Then emulate him.

Watching great people do what you love is a good way to start learning how to do it yourself.

I don't apply [being a role model] to the choices I make. I feel like a role model is not necessarily someone you want to imitate, just someone you admire.

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

In the past, I had my idols but today I enjoy learning from all the soccer I watch.

When you speak of role models, when we talk to our kids, everybody is a role model, everyone, just as you look at a Michael Jordan to be the terrific athlete he is.

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

Galley Molina's a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.

Business is about being the best that you can be, and there are always glowing examples of people that we can all learn from.

Well, I always hope that I'm a role model.

I'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me.

Whether we like it or not, we are high-profile athletes. We're role models. Kids come up to me all the time to talk and it makes me remember when I was a kid and I got to meet Jerry Rice and how much that meant to me. And how we've got to set a good example.

I want to be a role model.

And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.

I want to be someone who can be a role model to kids - and to everyone, for that matter.