Which athletes/celebrities would you want your kids to look up to?

Shotty, you do realize you are becoming a parody, right?

 

Allen Iverson - Worked for pennies an hour before he went to college.

Antonio Cromartie - A lot of kids (especially three 3-year-olds) all look up to him.

 

And yet, you're the sig, baby.

 

In the long run, a person's desire to be or not be a role model is not relevant. That person cannot control whether another person admires him/her.
The imporant thing for a child to understand is perspective. Nobody is perfect. All people do things that are wrong, albeit to varying degrees of severity.
I liked Thurman Munson when I was a kid, but I liked him because he was a baseball player. I didn't want to dress like him or emulate other aspects of his behavior or personality.

 

A few of the most obvious from sports.


Arthur Ashe, Wilma Rudolph, Jackie Robinson, Muhammad Ali, Johan Olav Koss, Eric Heiden, Terry Fox, Billie Jean King, Joe Delaney, Jesse Owens.

 

That's a pretty damn good list...

 

Mike Slive.

 

Danny Kaye, Paul Robeson, Marian Anderson, Audrey Hepburn.

 

Kevin Durant seems like a solid guy. Jim Thome, by all accounts, doesn't screw around on his wife and isn't in financial ruin.

 

I would concur with Terry Fox and add Wayne Gretzky, Gordie Howe and Jean Beliveau to the list.