these are beautiful men. god bless you

i will do more later(if i can remember) but off the top of my head my hero is any man who can beat the intelligence bureau the telephone

This guy. He was absolutely nuts.

Malibu from American Gladiators. 

At the end of the day, he was always holdin' onto a brewski and a beautiful babe while taking in some cosmic rays.

well I didn't have heroes back then

but as an argentine I could say may current heroes are:

MANU GINOBILI




Only player in history to win the Euroleague, the NBA and the Olympics. Plus a second place in the World Cup.
Won the NBA ring 3 times, on 2003, 2005 and 2007 with the San Antonio Spurs. Almost had the MVP for the 2005 finals.
Considered one of the Spurs' Big Three together with Tim Duncan and french Tony Parker, he has lately become the more important of the three lately, playing his best basket yet and this last month has been on the level of Kobe Bryant and LeBron James in terms of best bballer.
Difference is that he is more of a team player than an individualist like the other 2 guys.
To me he's the best argentine sportman ever. He won everything except for that World Cup with a polemic last second in 2002.
I don't like Maradona because aside what he did for football, he's an asshole and should shut the fuck up.

Wearing the Argentine jersey, he defeated the Dream Team twice. Once at the 2004 Olympics, to go to the finals and then get the gold.

DAVID NALBANDIAN




Perhaps one of the greatest underachievers of tennis.
Our best tennist player is Guillermo Vilas but I havent seen much of his playing style.
Nalbandian has one of the most atractive playing styles, which is why I love seeing him play.
Although he is also pretty frustrating as he can play masterfully and shitty all the time.
Is one of the very very few players without a bad head-to-head record against Nº1 of Tennis, Roger Federer. Currently it is 8 - 8
Never won a Grand Slam, but got to the Wimbledon finals, something never achieved by any argentine. Mostly because argies are clay players and Nalby isn't.
His big cups are the 2005 Master Cup defeating Federer.
And the 2007 Madrid and Paris Master Series. At Madrid he defeated the three top seeded players (Federer, Nadal and Djokovic (who won the last GSlam)) by playing completely demolishing games, specially against Nadal, who ate a bagel at the Paris final.
He only won 8 cups but he is known to be lethal when on the right frame of mind.

There are very, very few people I've ever genuinely looked up to in my life. Call me conceded, high horse, whatever, but it's true. None of them are famous public entities, but people I personally know.

Same man, same.

Well, when I was small my heroes were mostly just POWER RANGERS, but at the moment I have a shitload.

Yeah, I know half of you will hate this list but:

Robert Rodriguez:
I love this guy because he managed to put together an incredible movie cheap, and make a career for himself without doing anything the Hollywood way. Plus he makes some pretty good movies too.

Quentin Tarantino:
I've read biographies and stuff, and he's a faggot with a big image problem. But he was just a kid who just enjoyed watching movies, and after being rejected again and again for his unique yet violent style, he finally made it big and showed the world what he got. I like his movies ok, sorry.

Christian Bale:
He's just TOO COOL.

Tom Cruise:
I really don't know why I like Tom Cruise. To me he just has this really cool style, where he's calm and just, so serious. He knows everything, he knows the truth, and he believes in it.

Kevin Smith:
He is probably one of top on my list of people who I look up to. This guy went crazy into debt to make Clerks. He's such a hilarious guy to listen to, and so open about his personal life. Even though he's had tons of ups and downs, K-Smith is probably one of those people I really think has the kinda life i want.

Ryuhei Kitamura:
The director of Versus and shit, he's just an Asian guy who went out and made some movies which were just awesome.

Hideo Kojima:
I picked up Metal Gear Solid 2 when I was young, and it really threw me into this whole universe that I've never ever experienced before. When I finished that game, I knew there was something ahead of me in life. After that I started buying the action figures, the comic books, I started watching movies. Seriously speaking, without fanboyism, MGS2 could be considered that seed which began all my hobbies and life's ambitions.

Miyamoto Musashi:
I don't like talking about the times when I was a huge japfaggot, but back then my favorite Samurai was Musashi. I read all these biographies and novels. He has this very honorific mindset and a really cool life's story.

John Waters:
He made a movie about shit and made a family movie that made fun of everything. I met him once, and he was a REALLY COOL dude.

Chef Boyardee:
This isn't a joke, but I seriously think Chef is a really damn cool person. I'm not a funny guy at all, but his sense of humor and imagination is really something I wish I had.

Edison Chen:
Besides acting in my favorite movie of all time, Infernal Affairs 2, this guy is just, I have no idea. I don't really consider him a big hero, but someone I think is damn cool. After all, he thinks he's black, he can't sing for shit, but everyone keeps buying his albums.

Malcolm X:
I started liking Malcolm X ever since I saw the Spike Lee movie about him. Thanks to that movie I can't stop saying racial bullshit about white people all the time. It's like a reactionary impulse.

Martin Scorcese:
Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, etc. Those are the kinda movies I want to make in my life.

Biggie Smalls:
He was my neighbor when I was young, but I don't remember. It was like this outdoor apartment area, and this little house area I lived in, Biggie lived in the top. Him and P Diddy used to party and play music all the time. Plus my parents saw him get arrested in 1997. The cops were in our backyard with torchlights looking for shit in the grass.

Kevin Federline:
He's just cool.

Bill Cosby:
I've heard him speak at a book signing. Most people make fun of him, his ideals and such, but hearing him speak was really a great experience. He's so firm about his people and really helps out alot of young Black-Americans who are struggling.

Stanley Kubrick:
I've only discovered his work quite recently, but I've really been drawn into it and his styles of film making.

Eli Roth:
Yeah, I know Hostel and Hostel 2 sucked. I don't give a shit because I liked them. He has this really radical personality and I just think he's badass.

Justin Lin:
I've only recently started following his work, but basically this guy gives me a little hope to be Asian. His movies about characters who are Asian, characters who are not stereotypical, but whoever they want to be.

Diablo Cody:
I love her work. She made it from a stripper to an oscar award winning writer.

Takeshi Kitano:
Filmmaker and actor. I forgot why I like him.

I noticed most of the people I listed are famous in the entertainment business. i guess it's because I really have a desire to be recognized by people for who I am and what I do. I'm not entirely satisfied with my individuality in some sense.

Sorry, but I really suck at posting. Alot of my writing just doesn't come together. I'd prefer to put up some in depth explanations for each person, but for now this is what I got.

Really nice post Afura btw.

And I was suspecting Ron jeremy Pic all over the place but I seem to be wrong... whats wrong with you guys don't you have a hero that has more bed room capabilities.  (BTW I have only one hero and that is my dad)

Well, most of my role models are games.

 - gamesmasterjasper

That is amazing. You should put that in your sig with your other quotes, man.


truly... inspirational....

haha, i remember thinking jordan was cool because he always seemed happy, like he genuinely enjoyed everything and he was a very happy person. i've never watched a game of his in my life but whenever we jumped when we were 7 we'd shout "Jordan!" and i remember feeling bad when he changed to baseball because it was his dream or whatever (that's what all the kids at school said) and he wasn't very good at it.

the closest i had to something like this would be michael jackson (i am 100% serious). i remember i would wear this ugly hat, make a gun out of duplo, and run around pretending to be michael jackson. i remember it because my parents didn't want me playing with guns at all, so they said michael jackson wouldn't use a gun, so i started hiding the guns (i had two but one had a broken peice on the end so i didn't like it as much, i'd mostly use the one)

i would watch moonwalker back to back and one year on my birthday (i think it was my biggest birthday at around that time, i had a cake in the shape of a bat symbol) my dad got me his authorised biography or whatever.

man, what i wouldn't give to be 17 again