Do you have a personal hero?

My dad definitely.

Years before I was born he was paid off at work and didn't tell my mam. He still went out for the working day and at the end of the week had money for housekeeping etc.

He never did say what he did and I only found this out after he died in 2004. They started off with not a penny to rub together and he worked hard all of his life. My mam now lives in a nice dutch bungalow with no mortgage or financial worries and hard work paid for the lot.

Celeb wise, Muhammad Ali is someone I admire greatly.
 
My mum, for walking out on my dad and raising 4 kids on her own after he beat her senseless for a few years.
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Ok Prof Brian cox. born in Oldham, awesome musical skillz, works on the Hadron collider and is a TV presenter and all round cool guy.
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Hawkins for me, all work done now is largely based on his findings and will do for a long time to come, a real genius.
However, just recently I have gained a lot of respect for Prof Cox also, I have a feeling he will be the one to watch in the future.
 
There are plenty of people both famous and not whom I admire, but the two heroes in my life are my wife, who stuck by me through some pretty tough times during my rehab and depression, and my friend and the person who lost his life saving mine Ben. Real heroes, real people.


TANK and Meghatronic....:):cool:
 
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He wasn't perfect, but in some ways that is what is endearing. No one is, but I don't think he raped anyone and was screwed over by Don King, wasted his money but seems to have ended up wiser in the process.

The documentary is brilliant. Better than the biggie movie. :p
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The film was his life story mate, he is a rapist.

why anyone would inspire to him is beyond me
 
No heroes here. Wish I could find a family member without major, deal-breaking flaws to look up to, but there's none to be had.
 
Hero? No, genuinely.

I absolutely respect the achievements of many people and aspire to evoke the same in others of my own, but placing somebody on a pedestal is dangerous (less so once they are dead admittedly...) as no matter how great somebodies achievements, undoubtedly they lived the rest of their life as a mere mortal.

Nobody is perfect, therefore nobody deserves to be labelled a hero imo.

Respect, not worship, that's how I consider others.
 
Enrique Iglesias he is a true hero not like the rubbish ive heard so far in this thread.
 
My Granddad (on my dad's side) Kept my rather formidable Grandma in check for over 30 years, made my dad what he is today, helped my mum through bad times with her family when my dad started dating her & he was an Air raid warden during WWII.

Mum & dad always said that him & me were mates, a pity he died when I was two years old. I wish I'd known him better. :(
 
The 70 year old guy driving behind me into Brighton today with his wife - in an Evo X. What a champ.
 
A hero - has to be someone brave, involve something of self-sacrifice, intelligent and yet self-effacing. Can't think of a better candidate than Stanislav Petrov for essentially averting all-out nuclear war.
"All that happened didn't matter to me— it was my job. I was simply doing my job, and I was the right person at the right time, that's all. My late wife for 10 years knew nothing about it. 'So what did you do?' she asked me. I did nothing."
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