C. J. McCollum Quotes

To be quite honest, and anybody will tell you, growing up I was going to be a pro athlete. I didn't have any option. That was my way out.

This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.

I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.

The NBA wasn't a big deal at that time, so it wasn't really in my career plans.

I knew I wasn't going to play professional basketball.

To me it seemed in college ball, guys are more hungry. It's for a different circumstance when you're talking about playing for money and playing for heart. Not saying that guys in the NBA don't play for heart, but once you get that money, you're under a different mindset.

At first, I was thinking about just getting to the NBA, just watching the NBA, being one of the All-Stars in the NBA.

I think every young man's goal is to be a professional athlete, whether it's the NBA, MLB, or the NFL.

My dream is to play someday in the NBA.

Playing in the NBA has been a dream of mine for a long time, so to finally get to do that is amazing.

My whole childhood I grew up wanting to be a professional basketball player.

To be honest with you, I always thought I was going to be in the NBA.

I've been blessed to be in the NBA.

My dream is to play in the NBA.

People don't understand how hard it is to get to the NBA and that's where I want to be.

Trying to make the NBA is one of the very few areas where a Harvard degree won't necessarily help.

Since my sophomore year in high school, I knew I didn't want to do anything but be a professional athlete. I knew when I got to college there was no way anybody was going to stop me from being an NFL player.

I thought I was going to be a footballer or a boxer or something like that - I was into sports.

I think everybody's goal is to make the NBA. My goal is to be a star.

I worked my whole life and dreamed my whole life of being a professional athlete.

Ask any athlete. One of his dreams is to play in New York wearing a Knicks uniform. It's also always been a dream of mine.

I'm living my dream, getting to play in the NBA, getting to play basketball.

I want to be playing into January for the rest of my career, God willing.

If I make it in the NBA or wind up playing overseas, I will be at peace.

I'm trying to be a franchise player one day.