Quotes About Achievement

I'm just playing basketball. I just want to be a great player. That's it. That's all I'm thinking about. If the other stuff comes, it comes, but I'm just fortunate to play in the NBA Finals and just to play basketball, period.

I'm living my dream, getting to play in the NBA, getting to play basketball.

I really don't do much. I play basketball.

I want everyone to know: You can play basketball in Canada and you can still get to where you need to go.

I feel I was born to play basketball.

I thought it was destiny that I was going to play basketball.

I want to play football at a high level.

For a young player like me, it is good to play for a club that can get to the semi-finals because one of the reasons I play football is for these big games.

You can play football and be the next Jim Brown or play baseball and be the next Reggie Jackson.

When I play football, I try to win the game. That is part of me. That is who I am.

I've been very fortunate and blessed to have been able to play football at LSU.

I feel like my brand goes as I play football. If I turn into the greatest football player that I can be, I feel that my brand, how people look at me, is all going to be positive.

I believe this, we are all gifted for the talent - God blesses everybody with a talent. Mine was to play football. Some are to be scientists. Some are to be doctors. Sometimes because of the situation you grow up in, you can never display your talent because you can't get out of that situation.

It was always my dream to go to LSU and play football.

You play football to go out there and win - that's the bottom line.

I was never big or fast, but I got to play football and box.

I wanted to show off - a simple impulse or drive; in much the same way as some kids wanted to play football, I wanted to show off. Not complicated in that sense, very natural; it just depends on how you want to show off.

When you train a massive club or little third division outfit, when you go out to play football in any situation, it is always about winning.

I played college basketball. When I first decided I was going to play football, there were a lot of people telling me that I wasn't going to make it.

Whenever you play football, you will always have something to prove.

I play football, not to only enjoy it - and I love the challenge of playing and competing with the best players - but I want to have the chance to win games.

My long-term aim has always been to play football at the highest level I possibly could for a big club. When that is in your mind, you don't give up; you constantly fight and battle to make that happen.

We all play football to get money.

It's kind of nice, and rewarding, to have been on the journey from having to play football and work to being a professional.