Sports Dreams Quotes

To be among the world's greatest athletes and compete for Team U.S.A. while knowing that the entire world is watching is something that athletes dream about. To be able to experience that was truly special.

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

I'd like to get to the last game of the World Series at Wrigley Field and hit three homers. That was what I always wanted to do.

I thought at first I was going to be an NFL quarterback. I played until I was a freshman in high school.

I talk to people of different ages, and a guy who's 38 who says, 'I could've played Major League Baseball, but I had this knee injury...' Yeah, probably not. It's a big thing with men and sports, where they think they could have touched that thing.

I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it.

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.

All three of us boys, we grew up playing soccer. It was all of our first love. One of my coaches actually wanted me to try out for the U.S. national team, but I decided to quit to pursue football.

I was in school to play basketball; I wasn't trying to be a doctor. It's hard to talk about the NCAA rules and everything that happened in the past because I've just been focused on practicing and getting ready... I was trying to reach my dreams, and that's to play in the NBA.

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 always wondered how it would be to put on a Braves uniform and play in Atlanta.

I always wanted to be a pro athlete. When I was younger I wanted to be the first person to be a pro at three different sports, but then realized how impossible that is. At 15 I stopped playing other sports and focused on tennis.

Until my senior year, baseball and basketball were my best sports; and even when I was a senior, I still wanted to play baseball professionally. But the family wanted me to go to college, and I guess I agreed with them, or else I would have accepted some of the offers I got.

I've always dreamed of being a professional athlete.

I know everybody wants to make it to the NFL, but it doesn't happen like that.

Every time I'd ever stepped on a basketball court, AAU, middle school, high school, I always thought about the NBA.

You know how you're in elementary school and the teacher goes around the room and, like, 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' I said, 'NBA player.' And she's like, 'Well, OK. Maybe pick a real job.' But I really believed it. I felt like I was meant to be here.

I played ball for the Hollywood Blues of the Pacific Coast League, and I thought I was going to be a major leaguer. But I was the only one who seemed to think so.

If I'm able to get drafted by the New York Knicks, it would be a blessing.

I wanted to be a football player. Football is a sport that I love, but the more I started playing basketball, the more I started dreaming of playing in the NBA.

I would love to do well one last time in Melbourne and my dream would be to win Wimbledon and play in the London Olympics.

When I grew up, I always had the idea that I would play for England.

I always wanted to be a Sixer... I always wanted to finish my career as a Sixer.

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.

Sacramento and the Kings organization were always in my thoughts and I often dreamed of having a role in helping our amazing fans realize the ultimate NBA prize.