Quotes About Ambition

I want to play basketball so bad.

I absolutely loved basketball. All I ever wanted to do was play basketball.

It gets frustrating when you play basketball for your whole life and then it gets taken from you for a little bit.

I just started growing. And everyone said, 'You should probably play basketball.' So I said, 'All right. I'll give it a shot.'

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

You can play basketball - if you're lucky - for about 10 years. So, you're going to have to have something to fall back on.

I mean, I miss basketball. I didn't get to play basketball as much as I may have wanted to, but yeah, I miss baseball for sure.

I don't play basketball for the money; it was the last thing I thought of when I was a little kid.

For as long as I could remember, I've wanted to play basketball at the University of North Carolina. Funny thing is, there was a long period of time when I wasn't sure how much they wanted me.

I feel I was born to play basketball.

I always felt like I needed to play basketball.

I dreamed about being Michael Jordan, Michael Jordan being my dad at some points, or him helping me play basketball.

Even before I made my high school team, I'd say I want to be a NBA player, and people laughed at me with, 'Get out of here, you ain't going to be a NBA player. You don't even play basketball.'

I was born to play basketball. There's no question about it. That's it. And I'm saying this in my humblest opinion, I do feel that I was born to play this game. I breathe it, I live it.

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

Obviously I'm an NBA player, I want to play basketball.

In all honesty, I was hoping to use football as a path to play basketball in college.

I never wanted to be a cheerleader; I wanted to play football.

I can care less what people say about me. If I can go to the facility, work out, play football, and go home, that's what I would do. I'm a big-time football guy. I could care less about the outside.

I always thought that I could play football at the college level.

Football runs in my blood, and I did really want to play football.

I just want to be seen as a kid who loves to play football and to do the best for the team.

Of course we all dream about doing big, playing for big clubs, but I wanted to play football because of the love for the game.

I want to play football at a high level.