Stephen Curry Quotes

When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do.

Baseball is not what I love. It's my job.

If you have a passion and love for something, it's hard to give it up. I had jobs where the people were helpful and let me go to auditions, and I'd make up the hours another day. I was lucky in that respect: I could afford to get to London.

My kids paid the price for my career. We can say it's for our family, but it almost never is. It's about us. It's just some of us can pretend better than others.

I think that public service is tough on a family - no ifs, ands, buts about it. I have my own personal wishes, but they're not always front and center.

I could have gone professional, but I'm not giving up on my dream.

I like to think that I'm a family man first and a professional athlete second.

I can't tell you how many times I quit only to realize that when the work has been your life, you don't really have a life without it.

NBA or nothing, man. I don't need the money. I just want to give back to the game. Anything else is a step down, so I just want to give the NBA a shot.

Playing until I'm 40 is definitely a possibility.

I want to play until I'm 38.

I trained my whole career to fight. I loved my job - I prioritised by job over my family, over my children.

Football is my priority. It's a short career, and you have to make the most of it, which is why making the World Cup squad is such a big deal and something I will never take for granted.

I worked very hard in my first marriage, and I travelled constantly to make money for the family, and when I came home, I would be the best father that I could be.

I don't have any aspirations to play until I'm 50 years old.

We work just as hard as any footballer, period. We go through the same experiences and heartaches. We make the same sacrifices. We leave our families behind to chase our dreams, too.

I thought if I could play 10 years in the league, it would be a great career more than I could ever hope for in my wildest dreams.

Some people might say I'm old at 28, but I look at someone like James Milner. He's 32 and playing like he is 25 or something.

I grew up desperate to be a professional footballer and I was willing to do anything to be one.

You get older, and you want to be a professional athlete; you want to win on the biggest stage.

I want to play years in this league.

Seventeen years is a long time to be playing this game. It's two careers for a lot of people.

If you're looking to be a professional athlete on the top tier of any sport, my best advice is to put everything you have into it. If you're not, somebody else is. It's got to be all or nothing.

With this sort of career, you need determination. You've got to sacrifice a lot of things: family, friends - not that I had any - but you sacrifice everything.

My sophomore year at high school, I spent $300 I had earned working at After School Matters for my first studio session. For a 16-year-old to sacrifice that much money was pivotal. It spoke a lot about how serious I was.