Marion Jones Quotes

I was living my dream as a WNBA player.

Trying to make the NBA is one of the very few areas where a Harvard degree won't necessarily help.

When I was younger, I just thought about playing in the NBA.

I had already been into my professional career for six years and had not won an individual gold medal at the Olympics. There was a tremendous amount of pressure going into 1996 to get it done.

I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.

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

I don't know how many great Brazilians have played in the Olympics and not been able to win it.

I never wanted football to be my highest peak.

Coming from Oakland, Calif., I never thought I'd be a Hall of Famer. I wasn't thinking about basketball like that.

I've always dreamed of being a professional athlete.

Being able to play at club level at a high level and then getting called into the national team, it's amazing.

At first, I was thinking about just getting to the NBA, just watching the NBA, being one of the All-Stars in the NBA.

I've done everything - All-Stars, Olympics. The only thing I haven't done is win MVP of the league. There's nothing else I haven't accomplished.

My confidence level is, I think I can be a first-round pick; I think I can be a professional basketball player.

I thought I was going to be a footballer or a boxer or something like that - I was into sports.

I think everybody's goal is to make the NBA. My goal is to be a star.

I worked my whole life and dreamed my whole life of being a professional athlete.

I think every young man's goal is to be a professional athlete, whether it's the NBA, MLB, or the NFL.

I came into the league in '94.

I was blessed to play 15 years, especially not even supposed to have made it. So, to be able to play 15 years, win a championship, I think that basketball chapter of my life is done.

I always knew I wanted to be in the NBA and play myself in a video game. That was my goal when I was a kid.

If the opportunity to go to the NBA is there, then I'm going to take it.

I always said if I didn't focus on basketball, then it would have been football. I was pretty good and was asked to go to England trials.

I started playing professional basketball in 1971, and I played professionally for five seasons before going to Philadelphia.

That's a very privileged job and I love it with all my heart. I'm planning on playing my best volleyball to date throughout 2016 and certainly during the Olympics.