Childhood Goals Quotes

I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it's exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid.

I've wanted to be a starter ever since I was a little kid, so I wasn't going to give up on that dream.

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

I always dreamed of getting in WWE and becoming a big star. But it's not something you could ever guarantee. It's like a kid wanting to play in the Premier League.

Growing up in Canada, most kids from Canada dream of playing in the NHL, and they also hope one day to be on a Stanley Cup team. That was a big goal.

In my youth I dreamed of being an illustrator.

When I was five, 10, 15 years old, I always dreamed of being in the best league in the world, playing with some of the best clubs.

I've wanted to be an actor since I was eight years old and I did TV commercials when I was a kid. When I was eleven Saturday Night Live came on and I thought, "Oh God, I'd love to do that." I saw the Pink Panther movies and thought, "God, I'd love to have a comedy series; I'd love to have a character I'd created that becomes a series." I've now pretty-much done everything I've wanted to do since I was eight years old and it's a wonderful feeling, I've got to say.

And, you know, when you are a kid, everybody wants to be an actor. I think that everybody wants to be in show business, frankly.

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.

I started playing football when I was ten years old, and the main reason was because I wanted to make my parents proud. I didn't even like the sport at the time, but it didn't matter to me.

I'm not one of those little kids that grow up wanting to be an actor.

But I was so wrapped up in sports growing up as a kid, that I think I was going to grow to be a pro ball player. But I found out real quick that was not going to happen.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a palaeontologist. I wanted to dig up dinosaurs.

When I was little, I wanted to be an astronomer, but that didn't happen.

My goal from being a child was to have a happy home life.

I am closer and closer to reaching my childhood dream. This is really exciting! I will continue to work hard, to focus on each tournament I play.

Everything that I am doing now is what I wanted to do as a kid.

I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.

My childhood ambition was to be an Olympic swimmer like my aunt, but that died a quick death when I discovered other sports. I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life.

I thought I was going to be a rapper as a kid and used to hop the train down to Jazzy Jeff's studio for, like, six months straight waiting outside of the studio for the big break, and one day we got in the studio and played our demo for Will and Jeff and quickly learned that we weren't that good.

I was a crazy little seven-year-old. I used to get up an hour early to watch the big kids train. I thought, 'I must absorb their awesomeness.' That was my goal from when I was seven. I told my coach, 'I'm going to the Olympics.'

It's something that I dreamed of since I was a kid - to be able to represent my country and play in the Ryder Cup is what dreams are made of.

I was a kid with a lot of dreams. And my parents encouraged me in every possible way.

As a kid, I wanted to be an actress, but ambition and reality are two different things.