Professional League Quotes

To win the Premier League proves you are a top team.

The NFL has been good to me.

It's always been my goal to make it to the NBA.

My process to adapt to English football has been very good.

If you win games you will have good possibilities to maybe play in Europe, you never know.

My first goal was to play in the NFL.

I grew up such a fan. It was my life. Everything I did was hockey related and everything I have is because of hockey and the NHL.

Did I think it was hypocritical that a professional league making hundreds of millions of dollars off beer sponsorships was telling me not to drink? Yes.

It's a league where guys are trying to play to the best of their ability, whether you're a superstar or trying to make the NBA.

DC and Monster have always supported my vision for street skateboarding, from building skate plazas throughout the world to now creating the first-ever professional skateboarding league.

I think it's very difficult to generalize as to why, in a particular league or a particular industry, somebody has or has not come out. We certainly don't want a player to come out for our sake. It should be what's right for him and something that he has to be comfortable with.

When I first came into the league, my first three, four years, I had a teammate from college win a Super Bowl.

I'm looking forward to every game that I'm going to be involved in, whether it's the Champions League, Premier League, or anything else.

Trying to make the NBA is one of the very few areas where a Harvard degree won't necessarily help.

I'm the best player in the NBA.

When I first came in the league, a lot of people were surprised by my knowledge about the history of the game.

I'm an NFL guy.

When I was little, my dream was to come and play in the Premier League. So when Chelsea came in, I said yes straight away.

I learned a lot in the NBA.

Especially in the States, at every level - whether it's collegiate, whether it's our professional league - we need more women in coaching, 100 percent.

Aston Villa had been in touch and they'd gone into the Premier League so I knew I could play in the Premier League just like that.

I think it would be unbelievable to play in the NHL as an 18-year-old.

I rate the EPL a bit higher than the Bundesliga.

Just to have the opportunity to play in the NFL, I think it's the biggest dream come true for me.

Get your education. The number of guys who are blessed to be in the league is so small compared to the number of high school players [who want to play in the league]. But one thing you can do is get your college education. If you are blessed enough to get a scholarship to play college basketball, make sure you get your college degree, too, then move on from there.