Steph McGovern Quotes

I think that I could be an example to young people, and they know that dreams come true.

Basketball gave me an avenue to live my dream, and I just want to help other kids live their dreams through me.

I know there are kids who are looking up at me because of what I've done, and see my success and think, 'If that guy can do it, so can I,' then I love that and that's great.

I was just a small boy from Mississippi, and now little kids are going to identify with me through this game.

I love playing for my country, getting the support. Especially for the kids and everybody, showing my example of what I can achieve so early. And maybe they can achieve it, too, just to get that in their minds.

Alistair made my goals feel more achievable. I remember him competing for Great Britain when he was 15, and he came back with his GB kit. I thought, 'Wow, I want a part of that.' Sportsmen can seem distant, like superheroes. Seeing my brother achieve that made me think I could, too.

It's really the city of Detroit that I owe the thanks to and all the people along the way, so many people that played a role in my success in giving me the dreams and aspirations to go to college and do the things that I did.

I wanted to be Deco, Titi Camara, or Pascal Feindouno when I was young, and now there are kids with my name on the back of their shirts! That is such a big motivation for me, and I hope I continue to show them that, with courage and determination, they can achieve anything.

Winning the WWE Championship has been my dream for a very long time. But what motivates me more is to inspire people to go out and follow their dreams.

Dreams do come true, but not without the help of others, a good education, a strong work ethic, and the courage to lean in.

I'm blessed that I'm not content. Whenever I work with kids, which I'm passionate about, I want them to know that, yes, two World Cups, two Asian Cups, but I've done it the hard way.

I realise I have inadvertently become a source of inspiration and hope for people in India simply by the fact that I grew up there, went to my local university, but could go on to do well internationally.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

Even though I am extremely blessed to have accomplished many of my goals at such a young age, I am still reaching, still striving.

I used to sneak up to the 8th floor and watch Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo rehearsing 'Saturday Night Live' and could only wonder if I would ever have the chance to be funny. It took me five years to go up the two stories, but it is such a sense of fulfillment to be able to show what I can do on national television.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

We need to be aware of what we are capable of first and realize that if you place your dreams really really high, you do have the potential to get to that level.

I would like to see anyone be able to achieve their dreams, and that's what this organization does.

I want people to be inspired that I've always strived for excellence and I've always gone beyond what anybody ever thought I could do, what I thought I myself could do. And I've allowed myself to be inspired, kept my eyes open and my senses open to inspiration around me.

Whoever I can go out every week and motivate to do better and to try to go after their dreams, I'm up for that.

I hope what I do and what I just did inspires people around the world to reach for the skies.

I look up to people who succeed in accomplishing their dreams.

With each dream accomplished, bigger ones are put in their place.

High achievers, we imagine, were wired for greatness from birth. But then you have to wonder why, over time, natural talent seems to ignite in some people and dim in others.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.