Role models

We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless. . . . We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models. – Arthur Ashe

My chief want in life is someone who shall make me do what I can. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

One does not become a guru by accident. – James Fenton

I couldnt quit, because of all the kids, and the blacks, and the little people pulling for me. I represent both the underdog and the overdog in our society. – Reggie Jackson

I never thought a role model should be negative. – Michael Jordan

When I was coaching, the one thought that I would try to get across to my players was that everything I do each day, everything I say, I must first think what effect it will have on everyone concerned. – Frank Layden