Gary Payton Quotes

Everybody's goal in the NBA is to win a Championship - that's the ultimate.

My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, 'I'm an Olympic gold medalist.'

I played for 18 years, but the only thing that meant anything to me was the World Series.

The ultimate would be to compete in a couple more Olympics, hopefully break some world records and wind up my sports career with a couple of years in the WNBA.

As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances.

It just meant a lot because it's something I've always wanted to do. I've always wanted to be a Senior National Champ. I was Junior National Champ in 2002, so now to be the senior champ is great.

I definitely have two Olympics in me; I don't know about three Olympics.

I want to win a major, and hopefully I can win the four majors in one year.

To win an Olympic title when there are 205 nations taking part, you have to be super-human. You have to be superman.

I want to be remembered one day as a great player, good athlete and a good professional.

It was important for me to get a super series title.

To win Olympic gold has been a dream for me for seven or eight years now, so it was amazing to actually achieve that.

Those are the titles you play for, so I'd like to have a Grand Slam title in my life, and I'll do my best to do it.

I'm not here to be mediocre. I'm not in the UFC just to get a paycheck and make a living. That's really not what I'm here for. If I wanted to make money, I would have gotten out of the sport and done something else. I want to be a world champion.

It's amazing to get one Olympic gold, but you have to be a legend to get two. And that's definitely my aim.

My ultimate dream is just to become world champion, and not only once. So that's my dream, and it doesn't matter with which team it is.

It ranks right up there with winning a championship, being selected as one of the 50 greatest athletes in the NBA. It's definitely a highlight in my career.

I've won the African Cup, I've won an Olympic gold medal. That says everything.

It's a great achievement for a 29-year-old to play 100 Tests.

There's no denying it, I'm one of the best in the world, the belt's going to be mine.

I remember dreaming about playing professional basketball as a kid in the gyms of Tbilisi, and now, after a journey across continents that began when I was a teenager, I am coming home with the championship trophy.

My ultimate goal was always that I want to be known as one of the greatest of all time. The first step was obviously to be UFC champion.

My dream is to have a medal from the Olympic Games, and I will do my best to have it.

As far as myself, I want to see myself hold a Grand Slam, be at the top of the game.

I want to be the best player to ever play this game.