Taylor Fritz Quotes

I wanted to be a pro athlete. I knew that.

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

I grew up playing football and baseball and moved on to play college baseball, and, you know, as a kid, my dream was to play professional baseball.

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.

It is just a crazy life as a sportsman. My daughter, Sam, wants to go into tennis, and I tell her, 'No, you don't want to go into professional sport.'

But I was so wrapped up in sports growing up as a kid, that I think I was going to grow to be a pro ball player. But I found out real quick that was not going to happen.

In my youth I thought I was going to be a professional rugby player.

Every kid in America dreams of playing in the big leagues and they don't, just because. It's not because they blew out their knee. It's just because they didn't make it.

My parents wanted me to become a national athlete.

Until my senior year, baseball and basketball were my best sports; and even when I was a senior, I still wanted to play baseball professionally. But the family wanted me to go to college, and I guess I agreed with them, or else I would have accepted some of the offers I got.

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

I did play other sports growing up. I played cricket and all those other things, but I was just so much more talented in golf, and that's all I wanted to do.

I've always dreamed of being a professional athlete.

I knew there was no money in track and field unless you were unbelievable. So I stopped it when I was 13. I just really wanted to focus on soccer and with soccer training and high school, it would have been too much if I did track and field as well.

Every player dreams of a big league.

I really loved football from a young age. And my only thought, my only objective in life, was to be a professional footballer.

I believe that if I committed to basketball, I could make an impact in the NBA. I now see football as my job and my greatest challenge.

I love cricket and I have no intention to retire

It's kind of ironic when I broke in at 17, I was told I was too small, too slow and I wouldn't make the NHL

So I was in football, athletics doing shot put and sprinting, and rugby all at the same time. Ultimately, I didn't know how serious you had to take one of them and I was just a kid wanting to do everything at once.

I got into wrestling to be a WWE superstar - that was my goal.

I know everybody wants to make it to the NFL, but it doesn't happen like that.

As bad as I want to be a Charger, I want to play.

When I was about 12, I realised I wasn't going to make it as a top footballer, but I won my first British ABA title at 13. From then on, I wanted to be a world champion.

I don't really care who I play for. I just want to play ball.