Markelle Fultz Quotes

Many medal winners dream of competing in a sport other than the one they're famous for.

It's one of my goals to play in the best leagues and against the best players.

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

I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.

I was hell-bent on being a soccer player all through junior high and high school.

In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletics is probably what I was built for.

In Jamaica High School in New York, my coach was Larry Ellis, and he said I could probably make the Olympic team. He gave me something to shoot for.

I played football in high school, I played baseball when I was younger, things like that, but I think it was the passion I had for track where you want to do an individual sport and be the best, I think - there's nothing that can replace that.

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.

I've never felt that I was less of an athlete or not accomplished athletically because I didn't win an Olympic medal. It's definitely something I would have liked to have added to my resume, but at the same time I think I can look back at my athletic career and feel that I was one of the best.

It has nothing to do with swimming. That happens to be my sport. I'm trying to see how far I can go.

It was not until the end of my freshman year in high school that I thought I could really have a future in track and field. I definitely did not think I could make it to the Olympics back then, though; I was just focused on making it to the state finals!

When I got into high school, I got really into basketball. I had this itch that I wanted to just move. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew that if basketball became a scholarship or something, it would be a means to that. It turned out I couldn't jump that high.

I have so much passion for the game.

I would like to play for a club who I feel have true ambition.

Let's be honest. Georgia, if you get the best players in this state, you should be winning championships.

I hope I can develop here in the Premier League, and I hope I can be like those great legends one time in my career.

I never wanted football to be my highest peak.

To be called up to the national team is what you want.

For me, when I was in high school, that was my ultimate dream, was to make it to the NBA.

That's a special time, to get drafted.

I wanted to be the Number 1 overall pick.

It's a great opportunity to get picked top 10 in the draft. It's just a dream that I've always had.

The idea of developing football and winning trophies at Real Madrid does not fall in line with how I see football.