Jamal Crawford Quotes

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

Like I said, when I was a kid, they inspired me.

The NFL is my goal, not my dream. My dream is to have an impact on people.

I record myself talking. I have a journal. And when I listen back, I remember why I wanted certain things. I listen to me at 16, saying 'I really wanna be on TV... I want a movie, a huge movie...' and I'm just like, 'Yo, I'm humbled. I'm living a life I imagined.'

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

To have your childhood dream realized is a really big deal.

So, it's nice to know that you've inspired someone to do their life's work.

When I was 15 or 16 and I started climbing up the ladder of success in amateur boxing, a reporter asked me, "What do you want to be?" I think he was expecting me to say, "A champion." I said, "I want to be special." I don't know why I said that, but I didn't just want to be a fighter. I wanted to have an impact with people, particularly kids.

I want to change history, do something important in my life, and influence individuals like we have with millions of small businesses on Alibaba. Then they love and respect you because you made their life important.

The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

Broch is an inspiration to us, not only because of what he accomplished, but also because of all that he aimed at and could not attain.

I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.

Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it.

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

There are many mediocre entertainers who don't aspire to much more than fame and glory. It's very easy to have them as your role models because there aren't as many greats. Go back, discover the greats, and take it from there.

I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived.

Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.

I'm fortunate enough to be living my dreams and a lot of other peoples' dreams.

And I haven't met too many actors along the way that haven't told me how much the show has meant to them. It's one of the reasons they say they are doing what they're doing, today.

I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.

If my mother hadn't been trying to be a writer, I don't know if I would have thought of it myself.

I remember listening to 'Maniac' and running around and thinking I'm going to be somebody someday.

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.

I've probably had my day in the sun. I think I've influenced a lot of comic book writers.