Paul George Quotes

It's always fun to play someone like an action hero that you always wanted to play as a child. I think every young boy loves that as a kid.

I never was able to be a Lakers fan - I'm more of a Spurs fan.

People saying I want to come here, who doesn't want to play for their hometown? That's a dream come true, if you're a kid growing up on the outskirts of L.A., to be the man in your city.

Jerry West really helped a lot, and so did players like Magic Johnson. That's why, at the end of my career, I wanted to finish my career with the Lakers.

The Olympics is nothing I ever dreamed about. I dreamed about playing for Coach Knight and Indiana.

I wanted to be a bus driver when I was a kid. I look at bus driving through the eyes of a little boy. I see it as glamorous.

When I was about 5 I think, I desperately wanted to be a pirate and have the hat and everything.

I grew up with six brothers, and I'm from Chicago, so princesses and Barbie dolls were not around the house. It was more like sports and comic books, so getting to work for Marvel is like my version of being able to be a princess.

As a kid, you run around the house pretending to be a superhero, and now to be doing it as a job, I feel very lucky.

I thought I would be Sheena of the Jungle as a little girl.

I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on me.

As long as you put on a jersey, no matter what kind of jersey it is, as long as you're supporting the game of basketball, I enjoy it.

I remember clearly watching a 'Sooty Show' at a theatre and telling my mum I wanted to be up with the puppets, not in the audience.

I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football.

When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress.

I am and will always be a Laker for life.

Even though I wanted to be John Malkovich or Sean Penn when I was a kid, mostly I was a music nerd.

I don't know anything else but the Lakers. This has certainly been more than a job for me as a player. It has certainly meant more to me than just an occupation.

I was certain when I was about 10 years old that I was going to be a special effects artist or a make-up man. I loved that stuff and pursued it for quite some time, actually.

Most actors are like, 'I want to be more like Marlon Brando.' But when I was a little kid, I just wanted to be an action hero! Then I grew up, and my interests were different.

I was a Knicks fan until the day I bought the Bulls.

One of my biggest gifts ever, my mother made a Yankee uniform for me as a little boy, and I wore it to bed dreaming I could pitch in the major leagues and then be a Yankee.

Me, growing up, I was a Kobe fan, Kobe fanatic, and just getting, just being able to just wear his shoes, it's my favorite shoe to play in.

When I wrote my stories in elementary school, I signed them all 'Karen E. Bender' with the squiggly 'E.' I wanted, from an early age, to be a writer, and that name - that E - was a way of pretending I knew how to do it.

I grew up a Lakers and a Clippers fan.