What was really funny is that as I got older all those guys who called me a sissy in junior high school wanted me to be their best friend because they wanted to meet all the girls that I knew in figure skating. Scott Hamilton
When I started out as a little kid, I didn't say 'I just want to run football.' I wanted to be a great athlete. Herschel Walker
When I was a boxer, I wanted to be champion of the world, not the richest man in the world. George Foreman
'I Am Legend' is quite unusual for its time. I just wanted to write a story about female boxers, and I couldn't get that going in my mind. I don't know exactly where the idea of just a man pitting himself against a robot boxer came from. Richard Matheson
'The Chicken Soup for the Soul' books are the result of over 20 years of teaching seminars and giving speeches. The first book contains all of the stories that I used in my seminars to illustrate the points that I wanted to make. Jack Canfield
A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard. Cal Ripken Jr
A lot of times, in the beginning of my career, I put pressure on myself just because I wanted to perform so well. I just wanted to be perfect. Floyd Mayweather Jr
After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else. Bob Uecker
All I ever wanted really, and continue to want out of life, is to give 100 percent to whatever I'm doing and to be committed to whatever I'm doing and then let the results speak for themselves. Also to never take myself or people for granted and always be thankful and grateful to the people who helped me. Jackie Joyner Kersee
All I ever wanted to do was play competitive golf against the best players in the world. Jack Nicklaus
All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children. Paul Auster
Always wanted to be a Major League player. Loved baseball. Followed it. Loved to play. Plus, I could always hit. Stan Musial
And if there was something, suppose I wanted to write something really damning or embarrassing about one of the owners, that would really be a problem on the NFL's site. Gregg Easterbrook
And this one I wanted to do some covers. So I just really sang some of my favorite songs. Katey Sagal
Army life was rough. Would you believe it, they actually wanted me to pitch three times a week. Whitey Ford
As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion. Marion Jones
As a child, I wanted to be an athlete, a professional tennis player or something like that. Jonathan Ames