Aspiring Athletes Quotes

The Olympics was a goal, and definitely, swimming in college was a goal.

As a kid growing up in Canton, Ohio, you never see yourself in a position to play in the NBA, much less have somebody pay you to wear shoes.

Not many young guys in the league are getting to play valuable minutes for a really good team, so I'm trying to take advantage of it as much as I can.

If the girls and boys have talent and feel like working on themselves, they can become champions.

I don't let it get to my head because there have been plenty of good juniors that haven't made it to the big stage.

Run Adam will play a significant role in aspiring sportspersons' life to achieve their dreams.

As aspiring athletes, you should never give up on your dreams. Just believe in yourself, and everything will be possible.

Everyone wants to make the Olympics. Everyone wants to pretty much just play on the team or at least try out.

If people are looking at me in my hometown, then every woman that races against me in the peloton is as well. I can tell you, every one of them now believes that they can do it. When I go to a Cascade or Nature Valley and they race against me, the girls that are say 30 seconds from me at the races are all of a sudden saying 'I'm 30 seconds from gold I mean why can't I do this.'

When you're young, you don't think about what you want to be. I was just playing football because I had fun and enjoyed it. When I reached 16, that's when I was dreaming about becoming a footballer.

I've heard so many stories of young girls watching the Olympics and being inspired by it, and they want to do it now, and that's really cool.

To any young kid who wants to be a footballer, I would simply say: Have fun playing football and enjoy the team - spirit. That's the right attitude; that will bring you pleasure and fulfillment in football. A baker cannot live on bread he made yesterday, and a footballer cannot live on his last game. It's about the here and now.

Once you become a professional athlete or once you do anything well, then you're automatically a role model ... I have no problem being a role model. I love it. I have kids looking up to me and hopefully I inspire these kids to do good things.

Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball, and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity. .. Some become multimillionaires and chairmen of the board, and some of us must be content to play baseball at company picnics or manage a credit union without pay.

One of my goals is definitely to motivate the youth towards sports. Whether it's arts or academics, I just want to let them know that anything is possible. To think that I grew up as a WWE fan and now I'm a WWE champion proves that through hard work anything really is possible.

Now you have kids that say, 'I wanna be Torii Hunter one day.' Man, I love that.

If I can inspire kids to do what I do - want to become professional soccer players - then I think that that's everything I want to do.

Kids win this'n'that every day. Thousands of them. One out of a hundred fights professionally. One out of a thousand's worth watchin', one out of a million's worth coffee and doughnuts.

I want to show people who I really am, especially aspiring basketball players who want to be at this level. That's what I'm about.

We hope girls are inspired to start playing at a younger age and try to get to a World Cup themselves.

Everybody wants to play in the Premiership and I like a big challenge.

It was hard because every kid from high school wants a chance to make the jump to the minors to see what they can do. But in the end, it wasn't difficult for me because I wanted to come to Rice. I could learn a lot more by coming here.

I went to a lot of college camps when I was younger... You just admire those players because they're at a higher level than you at that time.

It's every little girl's dream to go onto the World Cup.