Quotes About Aspiration

I wanted to be a pro athlete. I knew that.

I've been working to be a pro since I was 11 years old.

So kids that have pro potential and want to take a loan so that their families don't have to deal with it, why can't you?

It has always been my dream to make it as a pro.

I didn't know I was good enough to be a pro growing up.

I think when I moved to the United States and saw how serious basketball was and how good I was compared to everyone else. You just came from Canada and you're top five in the country; you're young and everyone says you can be a pro. That's when I started thinking: if I work hard, the dream can come true.

To be quite honest, and anybody will tell you, growing up I was going to be a pro athlete. I didn't have any option. That was my way out.

Everybody who rides a motorbike thinks they can ride MotoGP. Anybody who does a Gran Fondo thinks they can do pro cycling. Anyone who drives a Corsa thinks they can do Formula 1.

I was 18, I wanted to be a first-year pro.

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.

Before coming into college, I definitely wasn't ready to go pro. I didn't have those results that all the other players had. I didn't have the confidence in my game or myself, or things like that.

When you're a young pro from an undeveloped country in road cycling then you're on the back foot.

I didn't start out planning to be Mr. Olympia I just wanted to be the best that I could be, but my goals changed as I went along. I wanted to be the British champion, and then I wanted to be a pro, then Mr. Olympia.

Why should the televised stuff be only about pro gamers? For me it's more fascinating to see who's going to be the next god of gods than watching some pro gamer.

This is somewhere I want to be for now on, being in the Pro Bowl and being an All-Pro player.

Obviously, not many people get to be pro athletes and hopefully make it in their sport. So I'm just lucky enough to have the chance.

When I turned pro, it was one of my goals to get ranked in the top 50. I didn't really feel the pressure. I had some fear but at the same time I was happy to play tennis and playing stronger players.

If I'm being totally honest, I'd pretty much given up on turning pro. I don't think I'd totally given up on the dream, but I'd accepted that it probably wasn't going to happen.

I always told my mother when I was growing up that I was going to go pro in something, and it came true. All the hard work paid off for me.

After college I was like, Oh, I want to play pro,' but I didn't know exactly what that meant.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo.

I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I'd like to tell, direct or produce.

I want to write. I want to direct. I want to produce - I want to inhabit what I think it means to fully be an artist.