The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I had my footballing heroes such as Bryan Robson and Diego Maradona but my dad was a rugby league star, and he was my real hero. But the relationship with my mum was rocky and we saw things that would affect any youngster.
My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called my uncle. He was like a father to me. I was closer to him than I was my father.
Steven Spielberg was my childhood hero.
I didn't know children were expected to have literary heroes, but I certainly had one, and I even identified with him at one time: Doctor Dolittle, whom I now half identify with the Charles Darwin of Beagle days.
I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig.
I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up.
I've really had two heroes in my life. My father and Ronald Reagan.
Two of my biggest heroes were my father and John Wayne.
My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty.
When I was growing up, I didn't have a hometown hero.