Quotes About Aspiration

I think every young man's goal is to be a professional athlete, whether it's the NBA, MLB, or the NFL.

I always wanted to be a professional athlete and really did not necessarily care which sport.

Playing professional football is something I'll never be able to do.

I think, a lot of guys who want to be professional football players, they see the Premiership players, and they see the finished article, but there's a lot of hard work that's gone into their careers for them to get there. There's a lot of sacrifice, and I think people tend to forget that.

When I first got to college, in my mind, I was going to end up playing professional football. When I tell people this story, they always end up laughing, and I chuckle about it at my own expense. I was a big fan of American football; I played in high school, and I ended up earning the opportunity to play in college.

I'd like to run a professional football team. I'd love to run the USTA, be the sports editor of the 'New York Times.'

Since I was in high school, I wanted to play professional football and professional baseball, be a two-sport star.

I always told my dad I'd play professional football.

I would try to be a striker even though I wasn't and once I started growing up and seeing professional football was a step closer I would look at Sergio Ramos. I always looked up to Ramos as an example and watched him a lot.

I always watched professional football and my father played at an amateur level, but I didn't think I wanted to become a pro.

I was a young boy from Western Australia with a dream to play professional football.

In my professional life, someone I really look up to is Kathleen Finch.

When I first started doing stand-up back in Philadelphia, the idea of being a professional writer was completely beyond me. It didn't even occur to me that that was something you could do.

In Japan, when I went there, there was no professionalism at all. But the biggest advantage was that everyone was united and wanted to progress from amateur football to professional.

I always played hockey, I was always a hockey fan, but I was never bitten by the hockey bug... I never looked into playing it professionally.

I performed and sang at school but as a child it was never anything I was interested in doing professionally.

Already in go-karts, I said, 'OK, that's what I really want to do professionally as a career, as a job.'

When I was young in the business, I felt anything I wanted to buy personally and professionally was always too expensive.

I decided to start professionally making music at about 11. I was like, 'Okay, this is something I really want to do.'

I didn't start thinking about what I wanted to do professionally until I was 17. I was a hippie, but I did write.

I always loved writing, but never considered that I could do it professionally.

I grew up a Michael Jordan fan; that was my first idol. But my true sports idol was Deion Sanders: he was the person I always wanted to be. I wanted to play two sports professionally, which would never happen, but to me, that was every kid's dream.

I never even thought about playing professionally. I didn't think that was a possibility for a little kid from Illinois.

I wouldn't even go spend the night at a friend's unless they had a piano. But I didn't have the chops, the extraordinary talent, to be able to play the piano professionally.