Dwyane Wade Quotes

Nobody thought that I was going to make it to the NBA. I only had a couple of believers growing up.

I think I dreamed about competing at the Olympics, maybe hoping to win a gold medal. Not that I ever thought that I would, but I dreamed about it.

As a league player, for myself, you strive to win a comp. I'm lucky enough to have achieved that... but most sportspeople would love to go to the Olympics, and I haven't achieved that.

I wished for just one medal as a junior.

I'd love to go to the Olympics. I grew up watching it on TV, and I was always very patriotic and passionate watching that. I'd like to give that back to my country, but I know I can't just walk into the side.

Growing up, you'd see Michael Jordan on everything from Gatorade to shoes - everything. Obviously, that's something pretty cool for an athlete to aspire to.

As a kid, everyone dreams of being in an All-Star game.

It was my dream to have an opportunity to become a professional player.

When I dreamt of being a footballer I dreamt of being a forward, but I wasn't talented enough.

I never said I want to be the football guy. But when that opportunity started to become real, I said, 'Okay, let's see where this goes.'

The Olympics were something that was put in my path. I knew I was capable, I worked so hard for it, so I guess it's like, Why wouldn't I want to go to the Olympics? But it was never something that I was really, really dead set on. It was just what my coaches and everyone else forced upon me.

I have taken a leap forward at United which has allowed me to get into the national side.

My father's NFL dreams never really felt like motivation to me, but it was something to aspire to. He was such a great athlete, the least I could do is try and use my athletic talent to represent my country in a different way. He represented as a Marine. Maybe I could do something to represent as an athlete.

In the history of sport in general, people stick around. Look at Shaun White and Lindsey Vonn just continue on, Olympic cycle after Olympic cycle; that is why they are famous.

Athletes are going to tease each other. Football players want to be baseball players. Baseball players want to be football players. Basketball players want to be baseball players, and vice versa.

I think that the most important thing when it comes to achieving your dreams is just that you have to be realistic.

Playing for Midland, that helped me get to Arkansas. It was really all I ever wanted to do.

It is the dream of every athlete to qualify and compete in the Olympics and I am no different.

For any cricketer, the ultimate dream is to be a World Cup champion. My dream is to win the World Cup for India.

Absolutely, yes, I'm proud of every woman, of every American, that makes her dreams come true.

To know that you will be in the International Sports Hall of Fame and that people for hundreds of years will know who you are and what you did, it means everything.

Football was always a dream, but a distant dream until when I was about to go to university. I'd had a couple of trials, but it wasn't a realistic dream, it was a kid's dream.

I didn't expect all of this success to come so quickly.

My first world title fight, it surprisingly came so fast, but we knew it would come sooner or later.

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