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I don't see many people as heroes and, though I love sport, I believe athletes rarely deserve that praise.

A hero is somebody who is selfless, who is generous in spirit, who just tries to give back as much as possible and help people. A hero to me is someone who saves people and who really deeply cares.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

I'm saying to be a hero is means you step across the line and are willing to make a sacrifice, so heroes always are making a sacrifice. Heroes always take a risk. Heroes always deviant. Heroes always doing something that most people don't and we want to change - I want to democratise heroism to say any of us can be a hero.

I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

In sports, every day you can be the hero or the goat.

The only reason anyone ever called me a hero is because I get this paper, here.

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.

My real heroes have always been sportswriters.