Quotes About Inspiration

Creativity was born out of necessity because I didn't have many things to play with.

My childhood dream was to play basketball, actually.

It's hard to play basketball when nothing is inside of you.

When you think about basketball, and you watch someone like Michael Jordan play basketball - even if you're a baseball player, there's still a lot to learn from there.

I always knew I would do music. At first, I wanted to play basketball, and when I let go of that dream when I was 11, I pretty much knew I was going to be in music.

I'm living my dream, getting to play in the NBA, getting to play basketball.

I think God put me on this earth to play basketball.

I want everyone to know: You can play basketball in Canada and you can still get to where you need to go.

I don't play basketball for the money; it was the last thing I thought of when I was a little kid.

I didn't grow up wanting to play basketball. I grew up wanting to enlist and then go into law enforcement.

I dreamed about being Michael Jordan, Michael Jordan being my dad at some points, or him helping me play basketball.

My mum made me do kick-ups in the living room. My sister even tried to play football. Everyone was trying to help me.

My brother-in-law was a Tottenham fan. He introduced me to football and brought me to Tottenham. At the time I just wanted to play football so I would go anywhere to play.

I believe this, we are all gifted for the talent - God blesses everybody with a talent. Mine was to play football. Some are to be scientists. Some are to be doctors. Sometimes because of the situation you grow up in, you can never display your talent because you can't get out of that situation.

I decided at 10 I wanted to be in a band; everyone else wanted to play football.

I feel like I'm just like anyone else. I just happen to play football, and obviously with that comes responsibility, but I love that.

Besides my father, who used to be a footballer at the local level, it is Messi for whom I started to play football.

I have always attributed my abilities to play football and, really, all other skills and attributes, to God.

I think people admire us for dedicating our lives to be professional athletes. But we need more people to come and watch club games; we need to encourage girls to play football from an early age.

It's one of the reasons you play football, to make people happy.

One of my favourite sportsmen was Diego Maradona and every time I saw him play football you could see the passion in the heart.

I was born to play football. I may have been taught to play but everybody is born for something and I was born to play football.

If you play football and fans are booing or saying negative stuff, it makes me play better.

It's football. You play football. You just play injured. That's how it is. A lot of it comes from my dad. He played for Hayden Fry University in the '80s. He used to tell me about the injuries he played with. One time he tore his ACL in Week 6 and then played in the Rose Bowl in Week 12. So, if he could do that, I can do anything.