Biggest Influence Quotes

Emmylou Harris is just the biggest influence of mine musically, her and Dolly Parton.

Most definitely, my dad was my biggest influence.

I think my mother is my biggest influence. There are so many things I hate about her but at the same time I'm thankful for her. All I know is that when I'm a parent I want to be just like my mom. I can talk to my mom more than any of my friends could talk to their parents.

Des Bulpin discovered me and, along with my dad, would be the biggest influence on my career. I remember him telling me when I was 15 that Jermain Defoe and I would play together for England when we were older, and he hasn't been too far wrong.

We're not Seattle East. We're our own Atlanta, and there are definitely things I learned from Coach Carroll. He had probably the single biggest influence on my coaching career.

Biggest influence is my parents. It's funny but my mom was the first one that allowed me to play tackle football. My dad was not ready to let me play yet. She definitely was the one who allowed me to do it. Obviously my dad taught me to throw and be a quarterback.

I definitely love kimchi. The biggest influence that eating so much Korean food growing up had on me was that I have no limit for spiciness. The hotter the better.

Maybe the worst thing is not caring what people think. That came from my mother. She was the biggest influence on my life.

The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.

My dad is my biggest influence on me as a musician, even though he's not a musician.

I think if you look at most successful people, if you ask most of them, their biggest influence was their dad.

Coach Spurrier, without question, has been the biggest influence to me, next to my father.

Of any guitarist, Jimmy Page was my biggest influence. I wanted to look, think and play like him. Zeppelin had a heavy influence on Rush during our early days. Page's loose style of playing showed an immense confidence, and there are no rules to his playing.

My dad was the biggest influence on my life because he was never boring.

Al Davis has been the biggest influence in my professional football life. I mean, he was a guy that gave me an opportunity, one, to get into professional football in 1967 as an assistant coach, and then at the age of 32, giving me the opportunity to be the head coach.

Someone asked me the other day, 'What's the biggest influence on your filmmaking career?' And they started naming filmmakers. I went 'Naw, it's Jesus actually.'

In my career, Diego Maradona had the biggest influence on me.

I discovered the 7th art at home when I was kid, through Charlie Chaplin's movies and those of my father who shot documentaries. He was my biggest influence. So I took his camera and started shooting.

Without a doubt, Dana White is my biggest influence.

I always say Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is my biggest influence. But for painters, I like many, many painters, but I love Francis Bacon the most, and Edward Hopper.

Bobby Cox had the biggest influence in my career and probably the second- or third-biggest influence in my life.

Bowie's obviously my biggest influence.

My biggest influence is my city. There's so much there. We have our own lingo, food, music and culture.

When we talk my biggest influence, I have to say Van Gaal. He threw me in the deep end.

Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.