It often seemed like we had become a nation where the only heroes were rock singers and ball players and that there were no large men of probity who could be called upon for the task.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Americans have a profound longing for heroes - now perhaps more than ever. We need our explorers, our sports icons, our Medal of Freedom winners, our Nobel laureates. We need our Greatest Generation warriors, our 'Sully' Sullenbergers, our Neil Armstrongs. On some level, we still subscribe to the myth of the man in the white hat.
I don't see many people as heroes and, though I love sport, I believe athletes rarely deserve that praise.
My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forward, and when they got to the point where they were comfortable, they always moved on.
Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He was beyond question one of the greatest players of the century.
It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
I think what we're lacking in society, not only in the U.S. but also around the world, is to find heroes once again and to celebrate these kind of people.
We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.
The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.
There were very few people who were both intercollegiate athletes and Star Men.
Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.