Athlete Quote by Barack Obama

Athletes are given a really special platform. It's our duty, as athletes, to be role models.

— Adam Rippon

I don't believe athletes should be role models. . . . We're a one-shot deal, one in a million, so we should be the…

— Charles Barkley

Incorporating science, technology, engineering, analytics and medicine to athletes' training and development not just at elite level but basing it right at the grassroots…

— Abhinav Bindra

I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models...

— Charles Barkley

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

— Venus Williams

Showing women being scientists on television can have a great impact on who actually goes into science as a profession.

— Kerry Bishe

I think everybody ought to be allowed to be engaged in athletics at whatever level the audience will accept.

— Gerald McRaney

The only reason we make good role models is because you guys look up to athletes and we can influence you in positive ways.…

— Dante Hall

I'm not sure that an athlete is prepared to be a role model. He has a lot of attention paid to him that he…

— Bobby Knight

The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on.

— Emil Zatopek

For professional athletes, I think we have a responsibility to utilize our platforms to stand for something bigger than our individual selves and to…

— Mike Conley Jr

As a sports person there is definitely a responsibility to be a good role model.

— Chris Hoy