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.
At one time, I wanted to be a WWE wrestler. I still do. I want to go in the ring once and mess around and jump off the ropes and do a Stone Cold stunt.
I feel like I should be an NBA player.
I wanted to be a second baseman for the Chicago Cubs. Problem is that my athletic abilities in my mind are greater than what my body can accomplish.
I'd love to play in a Red Sox game. It would be so awesome to actually walk out on the field and play, just for one inning. I'd also steal everything I could get my hands on in the clubhouse, which is why they won't let me do it.
I never wanted to be a dancer. It's true! I wanted to be a shortstop for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
I think I dreamed about competing at the Olympics, maybe hoping to win a gold medal. Not that I ever thought that I would, but I dreamed about it.
Every day growing up, I had this dream about the World Cup: I score the winning goal. In the final minute. With my butt!
Owning the Eagles is the ultimate fulfillment of every fantasy I ever had growing up in Philadelphia.
Instead of fantasizing about food, I'm fantasizing about the WWE championship.
If I could start with anybody, I would initially draft Tom Brady. Then I would go get Ray Lewis, and then maybe an offensive lineman, or somebody like Adrian Peterson.
I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.
Every guy should have a fantasy sports team.
I fantasize about LeBron's ability. He is the best player I have ever seen at this age.
As young black boys in Alief, Texas, my friends and I often spent afternoons imagining ourselves scoring the game-winning touchdown at the end of the Super Bowl.
I think I would have held my own in the NFL.
If you watch college basketball growing up, you picture yourself in that moment, you picture yourself playing in the Final Four on a huge stage.
It was the baseball fantasy of a lifetime - to be able to sit on the bench with all those professional athletes. I got to take my son along because I wasn't sure I would be able to play with them.
I also play a little bit of Tiger Woods once in awhile. Get on the golf course there, and pretend that I'm beating him.
To stay sane, I lived in my head, where I could travel and imagine. In my mind, I played a championship game with the Knicks. I won Wimbledon five times. If the Yankees needed a home run, I came to bat.
As a martial arts promoter and as a fan of martial arts, you go, 'What would happen if this guy fought this guy?'
Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can't become athletes. We're watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger.
I imagined that being someday in pro ball I would have been Kevin Costner in Bull Durham. If I had never discovered acting, I literally would have been that guy.
I wish I was a great cricket player, but I am not.
Game-playing is more fun when it's virtual because you're more successful. ... in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron.
