Quotes About Dreams

All young wrestlers would love to see their game back in Olympics.

When I was a kid, I never thought much about football. I thought about following in my family's footsteps and going into professional wrestling.

I was six years old watching wrestling on TV. I was eight years old watching Ultimate Warrior run to the ring at WrestleMania. I was eighteen years old starting out on a journey in the U.K. wanting to be a professional wrestler.

Going through secondary school in Ireland, everyone's like, 'What are you gonna do when you finish school? Go to college? Study business? Study electronics?' I was like, 'Well I kinda love wrestling, so I don't see why I should want to study anything else except wrestling.' For me, it was a no brainer.

Pro wrestling has always been my passion. I always wanted to be a pro wrestler.

You've gotta realize this - you could be working at Burger King or working for the biggest wrestling company in the world.

Since retiring, there's only been one time I actually dreamed about wrestling. In my dream, I was wrestling against Kurt Angle. I had him clamped in a headlock. I was breathing hard, and I remember telling myself, 'This is only a dream. It's not real.' But the longer I held Kurt in a headlock, I started to believe it was real.

I just started watching wrestling in 2008, and I've loved it ever since. I told my mom I wanted to become a wrestler.

I remember looking up wrestling schools at the age of 10, and I emailed so many people. The responses were that I had to be 16 or 18 to train, and that was a bummer.

I wanted to be a baseball player, but I became fascinated with wrestling as a teenager.

Everyone out here in Los Angeles is trying to do whatever to break into films. It is a tough industry to get into, kind of like pro wrestling in a lot of respects when you think about it.

I dream of wrestling all the time.

I'd like to get to the last game of the World Series at Wrigley Field and hit three homers. That was what I always wanted to do.

All of those years, I felt like 'Heaven's Gate' was a beautiful, fantastically colored balloon tied to a string fastened to my wrist, so the balloon could never fly.

Before I found out you couldn't get bitten by a radioactive spider and shoot webs out of your wrist, I wanted to be a superhero when I grew up - until I was, like, 8.

I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.

I think escapism is something artists write about pretty frequently - it's something everyone can relate to, the concept of wanting something more, wanting to find solace, wanting to have something better.

I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.

The first real thought that I had of something that I might do was to write for car magazines, because I always had a car thing.

I wanted a garret hideaway to write in like Jo March in 'Little Women.'

I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That's the pitch. We'll see.

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.

I wanted to be a soccer player, and I became the best of the best, the number one, better than Maradona, better than Pele, and even better than Messi - but only at night, nighttime, during my dreams. When I wake up, I realized that I have wooden legs and that I'm doomed to be a writer.