Quotes about Influence

I'm influenced by those '40s, '50s, and '60s films: things like 'The Apartment' - I was a big fan of Billy Wilder.

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

Catch on fire and people will come for miles to see you burn.

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

I grew up in Arizona listening to Hank Williams Jr., Johnny Cash, Tammy Wynette, and Dolly Parton.

Our minds are affected by sin. Our hearts are affected by sin. Our wills are affected by sin. Our bodies are affected by sin.

What's so amazing in today's society is people look up to football players. And as a football player, you have a platform. And it's so much more important than any touchdown or trophy or anything you could win with football. Its taking that platform and be able to influence people.

I was a stage dad. When I was with Earth, Wind and Fire, I was their stage dad - the O'Jays, I was the stage dad.

When you're in the National Football League, and you get this window where all eyes are on you, you can use that. You can use that platform for good.

I would like to be the kind of coach who gets text messages and phone calls from players years after I coach them, because we had something that is bigger than just being on the floor.