Athlete Quote by Charles Barkley

I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models… It's not like it was when I was…

— Charles Barkley

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

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 don't care what anybody says: a pro athlete is going to be a role model. I tried to use that as a positive…

— Clyde Drexler

I don't really agree with the role model thing. People are always saying that athletes shouldn't do X or Y because they are role…

— Claudia Rankine

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

— Venus Williams

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

— Chris Hoy

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

When you speak of role models, when we talk to our kids, everybody is a role model, everyone, just as you look at a…

— Walter Payton

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

— Adam Rippon

As athletes, as people, the way we're looked at in the community, and through kids, we're looked at as role models. The more we…

— Tobias Harris

We understand that athletes aren't necessarily role models, but we at least expect them to abide by the basic laws of the state.

— Tim Pawlenty