Sarah Hughes Quotes

I'm starting to think about my life, thinking about where I'm going to be in three years time: who I'm going to be with, where I'm going to be situated myself.

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

I didn't really know I wanted to act when I was a child. I have a lot of interests, and I really wanted to finish my education - go to college - and didn't really want to have a career as an adolescent.

If I'd been a better long-term planner, I'd still be in music, as a musician someplace. So I'll take it one step at a time.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

I have a very clear idea of what kind of career I want and the choices I need to make to get there.

I initially thought I was going to be a teacher. Maybe like an elementary teacher or something like that, which would be fun. Maybe someday.

I wanted to be a lawyer. Then a journalist. Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.

I thought I'd be a professional rugby player or go to university and get some degree in construction.

I didn't know at all I wanted to do TV. I thought I might go to law school. I might want to become a history professor.

I wasn't using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.

Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter.

I love to work with the younger kids who are trying to live out their dreams, if in fact that's what they plan on doing after college to take the next step. A very select few have that opportunity so when you do have the opportunity you know, those guys take advantage of it.

Even while in school - initially, Vineberg Allen in Mussourie, and later, a number of schools in Ludhiana - I aspired to achieve great things in life. Admittedly, I wasn't quite sure about what these great things would be.

I wanted to be a mechanic. When I was 14 I wanted to quit school and go work on my car. But my dad said Son, you shouldn't do that. You should stay in school until your education is finished, and when you're done, don't make your hobby your job.

I want young women when they're 14 to start thinking about what they want over the course of their lives.

It's fascinating for us women to begin looking at our lives in five-year plans. It really does help you keep on track. If that's too hard, start with a two-year plan.

My brother Cody is 19. He wants to stay out of the limelight and become a lawyer. I want him to be an entertainment lawyer, so he can help me out!

I have to teach myself. I kind of wish I'd continued with my education, but that's something I can do in the future.

The future is wide open. I may actually go back and get that law degree someday.

I definitely want to continue being an actress. I love it. The reason I'm going to college is because I do want knowledge in another field. College isn't the college experience for me. I'm not going to be in a sorority. I'm not going to network. I'm not even really going to make my lifelong friends.

When people ask what my ambitions are for the rest of my career, I always say that I live in the present.

The first thing I wanted to be growing up was a solicitor, because all the people around me needed solicitors! But I never really followed it up. Then I wanted to be a dessert chef because I liked the presentation.

I look at goals, like, what do I want to do and where do I want to see myself. What position to I want to be in going forward.

I didn't think I was going to school to be a doctor - no offense, but that wasn't me.