Quotes About Aspiration

Tennis is a great platform for me to do well, and for sure, I want to be No 1, to win Slams, but there are more things that I want to do.

Even though I'm 32, I feel like I'm playing my best-ever tennis and like the best years are ahead of me.

This is what I've always wanted to do. I've always wanted to be a professional tennis player.

I actually wanted to be a tennis player.

My mother said I would have more chances to become a tennis player than a football player.

To win a gold medal at Olympic Games has long been my dream ever since I started my career as a table tennis player.

I understand popular entertainment better than anyone. I want to have the world's No. 1 tennis player, the hottest movie, the biggest artist.

I started in a very small tennis club in a South American country where I never thought about becoming the best tennis player.

When I was growing up, I wanted to be a tennis player.

I'll prove that I'm going to be the best tennis player, one day, to play this game.

I think that everyone that grows up and aspires to be a tennis player dreams about being in the top 10 and pushing from there and going as far as you can.

As a child, I wanted to be an athlete, a professional tennis player or something like that.

When I was five, I wanted to be a cleaning lady; when I was nine, I wanted to be the world's number one tennis player.

My reality was that I would become a tennis player. I never had any doubt about it. It was my life.

When I was very young, I started trying to sing like the great tenor Mario Lanza; my family used to play his records. We all learn best by imitating others.

I kinda always wanted to be a tenor player, but I'm a small guy, and tenor was just too big.

It's kind of a crazy thing to decide that you're going to be worth tens and tens and tens of millions of dollars and set out to do that. It doesn't suit everybody.

It's always good to live in future tense.

He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.

The reality of our business is that for every actor who's rolled up his tent and given up and gone home, the next day you hear about some shoe salesman at Macy's who had this audition and now he's Harrison Ford. There's always that carrot out there in our business.

My dad had a great career and if I could win a tenth of what he did in football, I'd be happy.

But in the long term, I think it is improper to limit your future.

I would like, in the long term, to be recognized as a writer-director-actor.

I've been fortunate to get involved with 'Short Term 12.' I was just a young teenager on the Internet, clicking on anything that had the word 'actor' in it. One day, someone called me in for a movie audition.