I didn't grow up playing football. I wanted to be a…

I always wanted to be a basketball player until I discovered Pizza Pockets.

— Boi-1da

I also wanted my basketball players to know that I really cared about them. Forget basketball; as a person, I cared, I cared about…

— John Wooden

I always wanted to be a basketball player.

— Ronnie James Dio

I always wanted to be a basketball player. Nothing more, nothing less.

— Dirk Nowitzki

I am not a man of many words, but I can honestly say playing football is all I have ever wanted to do.

— Paul Scholes

I feel like I grew up differently, when you're a child actor you grow up differently, but it's not that different than growing up…

— Dante Basco

I've always said I wanted to be somewhere where basketball and football were really good together.

— Tom Izzo

My whole push was I wanted to do all basketball.

— Doris Burke

That's one thing I never wanted to do in basketball is get comfortable.

— Patrick Beverley

My brothers told me all the time that I'd end up playing basketbal. But I didn't want to play. I wanted to do something…

— Pascal Siakam

When I was working with Reebok, Paul Fineman sent me to see David Stern to try to explain to him, basically, the tanning of…

— Steve Stoute

It's funny, because it's always been a dream of mine to play in the NFL, but I was concerned about the games being played…

— Philip Rivers

I was in the game for the love of football - and I wanted to bring back happiness to the people of Liverpool.

— Bill Shankly

When I played football I wanted to make people happy. This is the way I am. I can't be someone else.

— Kolo Toure

I gave a lot for football because I wanted to be as professional as possible.

— Mohamed Salah