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The only reason we make good role models is because you guys look up to athletes and we can influence you in positive ways. But the real role models should be your parents and teachers!

— Dante Hall

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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.

— Walter Payton

The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you're a teenager you've probably gotten as much of an example from your parents as you're going to.

— Andrew Shue

I don't think it is important to be a role model, because if you are a role model, you are pretending to be someone else.

— Zendaya

I think a role model is a mentor - someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

— Denzel Washington

I don't see myself as a role model; people should look to mothers and sisters as role models.

— Lily Allen

My parents are good role models because they've worked hard and gave me a happy childhood.

— Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I think everyone needs to be a role model, period.

— Barry Bonds

My version of a good role model is everything that I have strived to become over the years, as I have a deep desire to live an honest life and give relentlessly and openly to people who look up to me.

— Dove Cameron

✗Opposing Perspectives

Sportsmen just do what they do. I'm not trying to be a role model. If there's any inspiration people can take from me, take as much as you can - from my good and my bad.

— Anthony Joshua

I believe that athletes - especially female athletes in the world's leading sport for women - should serve as role models.

— Venus Williams