Quotes About Aspiration

If I can inspire kids to do what I do - want to become professional soccer players - then I think that that's everything I want to do.

I wanted to be a soccer player.

I wanted to be a huge soccer player. I wanted to be the best in soccer when I grew up. But my life changed. Out of nowhere, I decided to be a fighter.

When I was younger, soccer was my life. I always wanted to play.

I always thought I would make it as a professional athlete but I thought it would be playing soccer.

My biggest dream from the moment I started playing soccer was to join the national side. I was privileged to be part of the team and to serve as its captain and there's no greater honor.

Well, Argentina has a big idols in soccer, in different sport. I'm just doing my job, trying to be an example for the kids, to teach them that you have to do effort to get your goals in your life.

All I wanted to do was play soccer. I used to tell my mom that I wanted to be like Marta, that I would be the best in the world and make her really proud, that she would see me on TV.

They don't call it the Italian Dream or the English Dream. In America, there is the American Dream. It was the first place to give people of any social background their dream. You can achieve anything.

I've learned over time that human beings tend to want to do more than they have the courage to do or that the social contract will allow them to do.

You ask a politician a question, like, why they ran in an election, and you'll hear, I assume, something about wanting to contribute to the community or bring about social justice. I had no such high goals.

There are many ways to be hungry. One can hunger for love, or fame or social justice, but hunger for food seems to curb all other cravings.

I think with social media and Instagram, people are able to see what's over the fence of everyone else, and it all seems within reach.

I am not hungry for roles on TV or in films. I am happy being a social media sensation.

I want to be one of the biggest social media stars ever to become an actor.

I worked as a clerical assistant at the Department of Health and Social Security for about three months before I went to drama school.

According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.

'Billy Elliot' embodies the idea that anyone can achieve anything regardless of their socio-economic background.

I really want to go back to school and finish up my sociology degree.

I would have liked to have been a professor of sociology.

Gene Kelly has meant so much to me through the years. I used to dance in my living room in socks and a tee-shirt, no idea what I was doing, but wanting to dance like Gene.

Pretty much any time I got a chance to do something cool, I tried to grab for it, and that's where my solace comes from.

I wanted to be a snowplow driver when I was a kid. Growing up in the Rocky Mountains, that's the most glorious job you can imagine. But then my mother took me to a lecture about the solar system when I was 8, and I got hooked.

I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old.