Quotes About Dreams

If I got a football scholarship, I was going to be a football player.

One of the best things if you are a football player is to see the faces of the kids, when they see you and are dreaming of being like you one day. That's a big responsibility, to be a good image for those kids. A football player is more than just a football player.

My mother really wanted me to go to school and to university, but I was adamant that I wanted to be a football player.

I think every child in my town wants to be a football player.

I've always wanted to create. I didn't ever want to just be a football player, so I'm just bringing all these childhood dreams together to try to accomplish the things I want to do before I die.

It wasn't like I grew up wanting to be a competitive eater at all. Not like a lot of people, like football players, famous people - they knew that that's what they wanted to do when they were young.

When I started, when I was eight, I never thought I would make a career out of being a woman footballer.

When I dreamt of being a footballer I dreamt of being a forward, but I wasn't talented enough.

The teacher would say, 'Not everybody makes it as a footballer, so what do you want to be?' I'd say, 'A footballer.' The teacher would say, 'But not everybody makes it. So what do you want to be?' I'd say, 'A footballer.' Every year that happened! Nothing was going to get in the way of me being a footballer.

I want to be a footballer - and that means playing on a Saturday afternoon.

I feel I have been very lucky. When you are growing up, you have dreams of being a footballer, perhaps even playing for the club you support, and I am living that dream.

I didn't think I was going to make it as a footballer.

Real are the best club in the world. Any footballer dreams about playing there, and I am no different.

I thought I was going to be a footballer or a boxer or something like that - I was into sports.

It's impossible to imagine doing anything else because I always had in my head that I would be a footballer.

I don't know what I would have done had I not become a footballer. I've always wanted to do that, even when my family would try to stop me playing football so that I went to school.

I grew up desperate to be a professional footballer and I was willing to do anything to be one.

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.

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.

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

I've always drawn, for example, and I did consider when I was younger, it was either do I become an actor or do I become an animator cartoonist at that point. Do I work at Disneyworld or something and do animated cells or something?

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.