You have a little reason, but you should not take the opinion of those young people or children about what they are hero so be an athlete or whatever, because most are fixed in a person and determined by the hero capacity that they see in them and to which they want to arrive one day, maybe it is not the correct word hero, but more as an example to follow. Every man is a hero for the simple fact of dying not only athletes or firemen, policemen, nurse etc.
You also cataloged the professions as a hero only and it is not like that, all people at some point we are, because doing good causes makes us heroes. What I'm trying to say is that you do not understand a man until you understand what's taking him to do what he does. Each man is the hero of his own story
That’s a great point. We should always seek to understand the path travelled before we judge.