Derek Drouin Quotes

I never wanted football to be my highest peak.

I always thought, it would be neat to make the Olympic team.

I just felt all along that if I could get a certain amount of years in the league, have great years and still have my health when I walked away, that would be great.

In sports, people reach their peak very early. You have to move on. I don't know if I will ever surpass what I did at the Olympics, but I'm still doing the work I always wanted to do.

If I have the opportunity to go to the NFL, I'm going to take it.

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I want to have records on the field and do things on the field. That's what this is about.

All I ever wanted to do was play cricket for England and be successful.

I'm just trying to pass Tim Duncan in championships if I can one day. That's my motivation; that's what I strive for. Tim is one of the greatest players who has ever played, so if I could get close or reach that plateau and have my name on that list.

If I can push myself up to the 2018 World Cup, then I'll go on. After that, I'll close the door and stop playing football.

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

As a boy, you never really thought of Hall of Fames, you never really thought of records.

As an athlete in my sport, you always want to go to an Olympics.

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

My idea is to return to Spanish football, I want to play for a big club in La Liga, that would be great for my career.

My mom was a two-time Olympic champion and when I start to play hockey I dream that if I have chance to play for my country I will do it every time they ask me.

I don't ever think about, 'Aw, man, my legacy. My legacy this.' No, I just want to fight the best fights out there to fight just to prove to the world that I'm the best fighter in the world.

I'm happy at Real Madrid and can imagine ending my career here - if all goes well.

I was blessed to play 15 years, especially not even supposed to have made it. So, to be able to play 15 years, win a championship, I think that basketball chapter of my life is done.

Um, you know, I can see myself doing a lot of other things but in my life I've always had one goal throughout my life and that was to play basketball and try to be the best that I can out here at it.

I'm determined to become the best backyard athlete ever.

It's been a dream of mine to be selected on the U.S. Olympic team as long as I can remember.

It is the dream of every athlete to qualify and compete in the Olympics and I am no different.

I made the New Zealand team, won medals around the world. I thought, 'I'm blessed. I've got a good talent.' I had no idea, though, how good I might be. But I loved the sport.

People who don't understand will try to label me as one or the other. I'm an athlete and a lot of people just have to come to terms with that. I do well in football, I do well in track. It is what it is.