I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.
Boris Becker

I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing.
Robert Sheckley

I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not.
Bob Feller

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.
Robert Sheckley

I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long.
Michelle Shocked

I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.
Wilson Mizner

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
Abigail Adams

If you have a crisis, whether on a ship or wherever, there are heroes who rise above it.
Jerry Bruckheimer

In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.
Alfred Marshall

In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future.
Gustav Stresemann

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
H. L. Mencken

It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.
Louis Pasteur

It often seemed like we had become a nation where the only heroes were rock singers and ball players and that there were no large men of probity who could be called upon for the task.
Elliot Richardson

It shouldn't take an emergency for this Administration to deal with the health care needs of our nation's heroes. Funding the VA and our bringing our troops home safely should never be treated as an afterthought.
John Salazar

It was just the thrill of a lifetime. Brando and Hackman were two of my heroes.
Richard Donner

It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed.
Walter Lord

It's silly to say it about a tennis player, but I'm an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.
Boris Becker

It's the unusual leading man. Most of the Hollywood leading men are powerful and capable and strong, heroes. He has this vulnerability, he's fragile, he struggles to find a way to live from day to day that we can identify with, that we can understand.
Mark Rydell

Joe Louis was one of my first heroes.
Robert Goulet

Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.
Charles Kuralt