Quotes About Dreams

If I aspire to be the king of WWE, one day if I keep working at it, I will be the king of WWE.

One of my goals is to become a WWE Hall of Famer.

The sky is truly the limit for WWE.

Instead of fantasizing about food, I'm fantasizing about the WWE championship.

At 13, I knew where I wanted to be. I wanted to be in WWE.

When I was on 'The Real World,' I moved back to Cleveland, and I had a choice: My dad was like, 'You should stay in Cleveland and be the big name out here.' I was like, 'But no, Dad, I wanna be a WWE superstar.'

I started out thinking I was going to play in the NBA; now I travel the world as a WWE Superstar. Life changes.

Seeing myself as a champion in WWE is something I've seen from the first day I stepped into the Universe and the realm of the company.

My dad did some work for WWE in the early '90s, so I grew up watching and being in and around it. I never, ever thought it was something that I could do.

I'm still that indie kid at heart. I'm still that guy who wrestled in front of 15 people and never knew he'd make it to WWE. I'm still that person.

I've been doing this close to 19 years now, and I always dreamed of being in the WWE.

When I started here, I didn't really have prior plans. I just wanted to be part of WWE, to get the opportunity to show what I can do.

For many years prior to landing my big break with WWE, I learned a lot about uphill battles. I had to scratch and claw day after day for a really big dream that, at many times, seemed totally impossible.

I always had watched pro wrestling. I happened to be watching the WWE Network one day and started watching differently: I wasn't watching it as a fan, but instead I was watching it as something that I could possibly be a part of.

WWE is something I've had my eye on.

Ever since I was a kid, this is all I've ever wanted to do. I used to pretend to be a WWE superstar.

I was from very poor people: 11 of us in a two-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn. I wanted the large houses, the cars, jets, and yacht.

I remember flying in, driving down 101 in a cab, and passing by all these tech companies like Yahoo! I remember thinking, 'Maybe someday we'll build a company. This probably isn't it, but one day we will.'

I was planning on going to Yale to theater school.

With Yale, my world got so big all of a sudden. At school, if you could dream it, someone would make it so that you could do it. It was magical. I had a lot going on, as you do when you're 17, and didn't necessarily capitalize on all of it, but it made me see possibility in a way that I hadn't before.

When I was a college student at Yale, I was studying physics and mathematics and was absolutely intent on becoming a theoretical physicist.

Before I went to work for 'Playboy,' I planned to apply to Yale to get a public policy master's. I felt drawn to go into politics. Even before that, my dream was to wind up either in the Senate or on the Supreme Court. I had big dreams as a little girl.

One of my biggest gifts ever, my mother made a Yankee uniform for me as a little boy, and I wore it to bed dreaming I could pitch in the major leagues and then be a Yankee.

Two things I really wanted to be: a stand-up comic or a New York Yankee - or a really funny New York Yankee.