Boyd Holbrook Quotes

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

I always dreamed of playing the NBA, but along the way, the road got a little cloudy.

I wanted to get that scholarship to - a division one scholarship and play ball and go to school for free. And that, to me, was - I was always about getting to that next step. If I could get to that next place, then I could figure out essentially what to do with being in that space and how to manage my time and handle those - handle all the benefits of being in that space in a way that would get me to the next place.

Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.

I knew I wasn't going to play for the NBA.

I think all players reach a point in their career where it's natural to lose some of that hunger, that desire, to sort of break out or be a star.

I don't have any pangs to where I want to be with the Broncos.

I was a cheerleader in high school, but I love to play basketball.

I wasn't really that interested in playing. I had gone through some hard times not playing in high school, but my coach had it in his mind that basketball was the way I would get an education.

My plan always was to play college football, hope to get a few snaps in and then go on to medical school. As I went further in my career and got to my junior year, I realized as I looked around, 'I got a shot here, and I might as well go after it.'

If you know people around me, even in college, I was confident, but the possible thought of making it to the NBA was crazy.

My earliest memory was watching gymnastics on live TV and wanting to do what the 'big girls' did.

I didn't know if I would be good enough to play for an American college team. But I wanted to try.

For me, when I was in high school, that was my ultimate dream, was to make it to the NBA.

I want to be the best Blazer - ever.

I want to play first-team football.

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

If I didn't love the game, why would I play at the University of Kentucky? Why would I ever come here? It's a serious program.

I wanted to get that Division I scholarship and play ball and go to school for free, and I was always about getting to that next step... I was always ahead of myself in some way, shape or form, and trying to envision how to get further along and closer to fulfilling that dream of being free and having creative agency, so to speak.

I played all sports coming up in Texas. I played basketball, football, baseball, ran track. All through high school I did all of that.

You look at all other sports, basketball, you think basketball, they're always looking at their target.

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

I remember watching the 2000 Sydney Olympics, with my nose right up to the screen, knowing there and then that I wanted a sporting career.

My goal was to be the starting quarterback at Texas Tech and I didn't reach that goal.

It frustrated me as a kid. Like, why didn't I just wake up every morning shooting half-court shots from my bedroom?