Kristaps Porzingis Quotes

I had little or no expectations coming in. I was thrilled when I was drafted in the first round because that meant I was going to be given a full year's chance to make the team.

That's a special time, to get drafted.

As a child, I wanted to be an athlete, a professional tennis player or something like that.

I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.

I've always wanted to be a top footballer since I was young.

By that time I was thinking a little about pro ball and hopeful that someone would draft me.

I wanted to be a professional baseball player.

I have no preferred team, but everyone wants to go No. 1 in the draft. Even the guy who gets picked last in the draft wants to go No. 1. But I just know that whoever picks me, I'm going to be excited to play for that team, and I can't wait to see myself in 'Madden' on that team.

Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen.

I'm 31 years old and I want to be part of a championship team before my career is over.

During my draft process, I had Seattle come and work me out. This is one of the places where I thought I might be drafted. I'm glad it worked out I'm here.

I used to say my biggest accomplishment was just getting drafted, whether it was the first pick or the 100th or whatever.

You want to be drafted high, but to be drafted high into an organization like the Kansas City Chiefs, it's like a dream to me.

As a footballer, you want to keep testing yourself and you also want to be playing at the biggest clubs possible.

I'm just happy to be drafted. It's my lifelong dream. Wherever I end up, I'll be happy.

The only thing you are really here to do is play football. So when you get a chance to go to the draft, and that part is over with, and you get signed on to a team, and you're ready to go, now it's back to everything you've been doing to get to this point, and that's play football.

It was my dream to have an opportunity to become a professional player.

I told myself coming into the league that if I could play for six or seven years, that would have been a great career.

I've always dreamed of being a professional athlete.

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

We all play football to get money.

I don't have any aspirations to play until I'm 50 years old.

I think every young man's goal is to be a professional athlete, whether it's the NBA, MLB, or the NFL.

My first goal was to become a professional footballer.

I came into the league in '94.