"I'm really thrilled and honored to fly the skies with my boyhood hero," he said.
When the situation was brought to Mike Holmes' attention, he felt honored to help out his boyhood hero.
My boyhood hero Nelson must have been equally impressed.
It was entirely different when he met another boyhood hero, Ted Williams.
Any time anybody has asked me 'Who was your boyhood hero?'
Sanders said he was encouraged by Sims, his boyhood hero, in workouts last summer.
Desperate for money, he wrote a play about Theodore Roosevelt, a boyhood hero.
They were still his boyhood heroes, rousted from the pages of his mother's book.
He hadn't lost a boyhood hero during his first command.
And he has just the model - his own boyhood hero, Julius Erving.