David Haye Quotes

I dreamed really big when I was little.

I'm really excited about my future plans, as I'm doing things differently and currently training like a Trojan in pursuit of becoming heavyweight champion of the world.

I believe in myself. I want to be a fighter. I want to be heavyweight champion of the world.

I think it's important to have a dream and to follow your heart.

It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Don't let your dreams be dreams.

In my very first interview, at nine years old, I said I wanted to be an Olympic gold medalist. That was the first time I said it out loud in front of somebody other than my parents.

I was always taught as a kid that if there's anything you want in life, you've got to work towards it. I guess that sort of stayed with me, really. But also, for me, from the time I was, like, 10 years old, all I ever wanted to do was be in a band and make music.

I set out in the beginning to be the heavyweight champion of the world. From a very young age, I was going to be the heavyweight champion of the world. Nothing else was a problem to me. That's what I'll finish doing.

I never had a dream to be a boxer.

You have to stay open, and things may come at different times, but I have to dream big, and that's what I'm going to be doing.

The Premier League is not my goal but a childhood dream. It is a dream that could be fulfilled.

When I was 10 years old, my teacher got us to imagine our future. I drew a timeline of the rest of my life. I had just started playing football, so I drew pictures of me as a professional footballer.

When I told people my plan was to knock everyone out in the amateurs and become world champion as quickly as I could as a professional, a lot of people said it was impossible.

I always told everyone I'd be heavyweight champion of the world one day. They'd say, 'All right, whatever.' I said, 'OK, you'll see.'

I think, as a child, there weren't dreams. I can't recall as a child having some ultimate dream and thinking that it was possible.

When I was 14, I told my careers adviser that I was going to be a world champion boxer. Of course she laughed.

I'm in boxing to be a champion and if I lose it brings me all the way back to the bottom, and I don't want to keep crawling back up. I'm too old to be doing that, man.

When I was a kid, I dreamt of being a runner. My mother and father always told me to go after what I wanted. I went after running.

Put your life's plan into determined action and go after what you want with all that's in you.

I've wished for things and never really had the chance...It's time to stop dreaming and do something about it. You've got to know what you want, then...go.

You just need the freedom to dream big and a whole lot of hard work.

All that matters is, how big do you want to dream, and how hard do you want to work?

I had big dreams when I was a boy. And I can't say that I never saw a beach house in Malibu in those dreams.

If you want somethin', go get it. Period.