Dylan Smith Quotes

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

I have been on TV quite a few times as a poker player.

At one point that's all I cared about, being a pro athlete. But I realized I wasn't athletic enough.

I met my boyfriend, a pro poker player, at a tournament. He tried to dissuade me because it's a seedy gritty world. Listen, I've played till 4 in the morning. I've played with a half million dollars on the table.

When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two o'clock game. Where can you make this kind of money playing sports? It was just a pleasure to go out and enjoy myself and get paid for it.

I would love to be a professional athlete. When I was living in Mexico as a teenager, I did seven years of gymnastics and went to the Junior Olympics. I was getting to the level of going to the international competitions, but I was only 14, and my parents were really worried because they did not want that to be my life.

First of all, I really never imagined myself being a professional athlete.

Our whole family had been sports oriented. My dad had played a lot of semipro but never had any opportunity to do anything with it. Back then, he had to make a living.

If it wasn't for finding out that my right leg could kick a ball really far, which is what I did, I am 100 percent certain that I would be attempting to be or would be a professional wrestler.

It's either join the workforce or become a professional athlete, and I'd rather be a pro athlete.

I have friends who ended up playing professionally in the Middle East and Europe.

I'm just a poker player who does a bit of TV.

I grew up in south London and spent most of my adolescence in the snooker halls of the area, turning professional at 17.

When I left college, I just thought I could play tennis to delay getting a regular job and go there and try to make ends meet. But it's been a very different experience for me, fortunately.

I did interviews with tennis greats, like James Blake and John Isner. I also interviewed tennis pros who aren't well - known but who made all the same sacrifices but had just a little spark of a professional career and are now still orbiting the sport, either as a teaching pro or a coach.

But when I will call it a day, I could become a professional poker player.

President Obama is a poker player, which the media used as part of the narrative that he was more calculated and careful as a politician.

I started playing street hockey, but there were tennis courts near my house, and it was my father who suggested I try. I don't really know why.

My parents were skeptical about me becoming a footballer and encouraged me to study.

I never thought basketball was going to be my future. I just wanted to play because it gets you girls.

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

I am going to be a professional soccer player.

For years now, the Lakers have expressed interest in having me play for them, but we could never get the stars to align. I'm finally a Laker...

Derek Jeter is one who played for such a long time, and David Ortiz in Boston is doing it right now.

I loved playing baseball, and the only reason I played was to play professional baseball. I wanted that to be my career for a long time. I turned down multiple jobs and meetings because of it.