Quotes About Aspiration

My first goal was to become a professional footballer.

It was always a dream as a footballer to compete in the best leagues in the world and those leagues are here in Europe.

This is what you dream about as a footballer: playing with the best and against the best in Europe.

If I had the choice I'd be a boxer or a footballer.

It's why you become a footballer, so you can play against the best in the Champions League.

It was part of my dream when I was a kid to become a footballer, is to have that pressure, to be the man who is going to be there when everything is on the line.

We are getting to the point where, like the men's game, playing football is not only a legitimate career but enables you to live really well and can perhaps even set you up for life. It will allow little girls to tell their mums and dads they want to be professional footballers and not have their dreams dismissed so easily.

Just like footballers want to play at Wembley, the Nou Camp and the Bernabeu, boxers have their dream arenas too.

I want to win the Champions League, which is a dream for all footballers, for a second time.

In America, I think most actors wish they were rock stars, but I think in England most people wish they were footballers.

I grew up with a lot of footballers.

The Catholic Church is an enormous footprint in Chicago, doing a lot of good. That aspiration is felt by a lot of people - that the church succeed - because it will be good for society.

I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and do comedy films.

My brother was the one who really gave me the desire to follow in his footsteps. Also, it was really Ronaldinho and Ronaldo, the two Brazilian players, who also inspired me to a future in football.

It would be a dream to follow Fernandinho's footsteps, because he is my role model.

When I dream, I don't just dream for myself. As long as you have that love and these dreams that you want to reach for the people you love dearly, you stay inspired.

When I leave the NBA, I don't want my legacy to be, 'He won a championship ring.' I want my legacy to say, 'He played for the people. He gave everybody in the world hope that they can be just like him.'

I know what my goals are, and I always keep that in the forefront of my mind.

I was gonna try to go to grad school to teach foreign language.

My first band, we wanted to be like Foreigner and Journey.

If we're going to go really deep, we're all trying to live forever. My music is my way of doing that.

Life doesn't go on forever, and you don't want to drop dead without ever having done what you wanted to do.

When I was 13, I forged my date of birth so that I could get a Saturday job at Woolworth's, earning £1 3s 6d for the day. But my real ambition was to do something in the music world - or, at least, close to it.

Sometimes in people's lives, when bad stuff happens, their dreams just die, and they end up settling. I guess that's their decision, maybe, because they didn't believe in their dreams or forgot their dreams. My dreams never died.