Quotes About Aspiration

I'd like to think there's still a lot for me to do, you know?

You hope you're good enough to win a major, you think you're good enough to win a major, but not until you win one do you know that you're good enough to win a major.

My father wanted me to become a doctor.

For as long as I can really remember, I wanted to be a doctor.

I went to college, I went pre-med, I thought I was going to be a doctor.

I wanted to be a doctor since I was five.

I was going to college to be a doctor.

It's always been my favourite show and I am on a mission to get on 'Doctor Who.'

I want to be a dog, but I'm a pussycat.

I wanted to be an actor because I saw 'Dog Day Afternoon,' you know what I mean?

Not going to lie, I wish I was a Pussycat Doll.

Hollywood is my domestic idyll.

Only the guys who never made it and will never make it in the U.S. need to put up the front that they don't care about America.

So much to do, so little done, such things to be.

I've always wanted to do a double role.

Nobody really doubted me playing football, making it to the NFL. I was like, 'I know I can do that.'

Everybody has their doubts in their 20s, but I've always loved sort of having a sense of direction.

I want to impact some lives down the road, one by one, and I want people to look at my story and my life as an inspiration.

I would say that in the 1990s, I don't think the environment was enough to make anyone ambitious and aspirational. It was a downer, I would think.

When I was little I wanted to be like Kathleen Hanna or Courtney Love or be attached to the X-girls and hang out in downtown culture.

I remember all the way back in high school thinking about writing books. And, in fact, I've written a lot of stories. I've got dozens of stories I've written that no one's ever seen.

I didn't know there was an NBA draft. But in my mind, I was always telling myself, one day, 'I'm going to be in professional basketball.' And I believed it. One day, I will. I believe this every day. I think about this every day. I was going to do whatever I had to do to be there. And it comes true.

I have watched the NBA draft just about every year, so to see myself up there, that is something I am excited about.

It was even hard to imagine I was going to play in the NBA, because so many guys playing in Europe are not even getting to the Euroleague and everything. But everybody wants to play in the NBA. So when draft night came, it was a dream come true.