Israel Folau Quotes

The time I've spent in professional Premiership club rugby has been invaluable.

I wanted to be a football player. Football is a sport that I love, but the more I started playing basketball, the more I started dreaming of playing in the NBA.

I always wanted to be an athlete growing up.

I feel like I should be an NBA player.

I am coming to the part of my career where I want to play more football.

I was a coach for a celebrity cricket league. Whenever I trained or practised with them, I missed cricket.

I had dreams of being a professional rugby player.

Playing professional football is something I'll never be able to do.

I have spoken with many former athletes, and they tell me the best time they had was in sports. I listen to them and use their experience in my career.

As soon as I started to realize that I could make a living playing professional soccer, I went to that place where I could torture myself because I knew it would make me better for the championship game.

When I'm out on the football field, I have so much confidence in what I'm doing.

As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.

The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.

As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion.

As football players you have all the experience on the field. You don't have the experience off the field.

I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it.

I played professional level sports. When you're playing for money, it's a whole other level.

Never played football, but I'm an athlete. I'm a competitor.

I just wanted to be an athlete.

I probably got more out of sports in high school than I did out of classes.

I wrestled when I was a kid. That started me off with the discipline, because making weight was my responsibility. It is a team sport, but it is also a solo sport.

My job is to get out there and try to become the best basketball player I can be.

I think I would love to play a sportsperson myself. That is something I really want to do, since it fascinates me.

When you become an athlete, you live in this bubble. You're in the world, but you're not in the world.

I miss the preparation for game week and all the things. I miss the draft and getting prepared for that. I grew up in this business, that's all I've ever known.