Adam Oates
Related J. J. WATT I just wanted to play tennis. I started because I wanted to pick up another sport and then as I was ... JANA NOVOTNA BARBARA CORCORAN You know, I wanted to get married, and so I - but I, you know, I realize no matter what you want, it... NELLIE MCKAY LOUISE NURDING CAITLIN MORAN I have no deep-seated desire to be famous; that's not what's driving me, so if it's some... CAM AJ LEE I can't tell if I want to be a rapper who's funny because I kind of enjoy just doing really ... AWKWAFINA RICK PITINO Sometimes I want to yell on this track; I want to yell the whole song, and I don't think nothing... SLIM JIMMY JOAN DIDION ADELE RON HOWARD TYGA EDDIE VAN HALEN DWAYNE JOHNSON TOM CRUISE CARLI LLOYD I'm fortunate: I can play as long as I want to play. There's no coach or trainer who is goin... LLEYTON HEWITT I remember in high school thinking that I wanted to be a lawyer, and now I realize I saw that movie ... AARON DOUGLAS I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was rea... CAITY LOTZ VIN DIESEL If you want to coach, then that should be what you do, ... You have to want to wake up in the mornin... JAMES MCKEAN Anything you can do to express yourself is a form of art. That's why I love my craft so much. I ... EMILY RIOS LONI LOVE In the Army, because the stakes are so high - right? - you can't just be a yes-man and say, '... H. R. MCMASTER There was a point when I was 15 or 16 that I realized that my father wanted me to be a loner. I deci... MARK VONNEGUT STANLEY A. MCCHRYSTAL RYAN GUZMAN I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fa... GAINES ADAMS ADRIENNE BAILON GARY ALLAN SOFIA VERGARA You can't compete with hip-hop. That doesn't mean I don't want to be as big as a rap sta... BRANDON FLOWERS FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA AMBER BENSON I'm the champ that puns the camp! That's what I always wanted. I wanted to be seen as a main... BECKY LYNCH RAF SIMONS I wanted to do 'Oh Shenandoah' because that's the town I was born in - as a tribute to m... CHARLIE HADEN There's no rule I want to break or ever wanted to break - I find the conventional life gratifyin... EDITH PEARLMAN ADAM ANT My daughter's wanted to be an actress since she was six years old, but I didn't want her to ... RICKY SCHRODER EDWARD SNOWDEN ASTRO I don't want to play earnest. I'd rather play somebody who's kind of sleazy. It's mu... JACK COLEMAN I always wanted the films to play in malls, and I wanted as many people as possible to see them. I n... HARMONY KORINE AVICII ROBERT GRIFFIN III That's where I got my start and where I'll continue to work, but I can't tell you the nu... KELLY LYNCH GRETCHEN RUBIN STEVIE WONDER When I turned 12 or 13 years old, even as a dad, you can't make a kid play anymore, but up until... BILLY BUTLER So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to ... PATRICK J. ADAMS ACTION BRONSON VAL KILMER MATTIE STEPANEK DAMIEN HIRST So many times, people want you to stay the way you were, be as you were before because they want to ... MAXWELL I didn't want to play a rancher. I didn't want to have a cowboy hat on; I wanted to get away... TIM MCGRAW When I was a kid I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up, but I did know what I didn... JODY WILLIAMS It's not that I wanted to be an actor; it's that I didn't want to be a dancer! I was tra... ZIYI ZHANG BRENDON URIE System of a Down is the music that I wanted to buy but couldn't find at the store. It's the ... DARON MALAKIAN If I wasn't serving in Congress, I've always wanted to be a high school teacher. Specificall... BRAD SCHNEIDER ALESSIA CARA MAYA ANGELOU The 'Sports Illustrated' cover was the last thing I shot. That week, I told my agent, 'Y... BROOKLYN DECKER I don't just want to be someone who hits the ball 100 per cent every time. You can play with fre... LAURA ROBSON No one knows for sure if you can inherit a stammer, and so I worry that my baby might. It's why ... GARETH GATES ANNE HATHAWAY If it's a whole show of my own, I'll do more of what I think Del Shannon is. But for shows l... DEL SHANNON I'm on Facebook anonymously. I wanted to see how people use it, what's going on there, but I... PATRICK WHITESELL I don't want fame as far as the tweeting or the image of it. But, the idea of being famous is ac... EMILY MEADE I came in after the seventh and coach asked me if I wanted to finish. And of course I said yes becau... DAN DELUCIA MARILYN MANSON HELEN HUNT I don't set goals. Like, that's what I want to be doing however many years from now. I do wh... AYUMI HAMASAKI It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me si... ZOLA JESUS MICHAEL J. FOX CHANNING TATUM As early as I can remember, I wanted to be a snowplow driver. When you grow up in the Rocky Mountain... KIP THORNE JOHN C. REILLY I definitely see myself continuing to transition into more acting roles. I'll always be a coach.... RANDY COUTURE TIGER WOODS A. A. MILNE You can't delete racism. It's like a cigarette. You can't stop smoking if you don't ... MARIO BALOTELLI Honestly, I don't look at it as work because I have way too much fun on set to actually classify... BILLY UNGER When I was a kid, I wanted to be a clown. I didn't want to be an actor, I wanted to join the cir... ERIC STONESTREET Everything I do, I want to be A.J. Styles. When you see a guy come out with dry, long hair, I want y... A.J. STYLES I do what I do to inspire people. They can't be inspired by an ego, a big-headed person. It does... LA'PORSHA RENAE IAN MCKELLEN WALE I've always wanted to be a fighter pilot. But I don't want to kill people. I'd hate to. MAX IRONS GAIL CARSON LEVINE I wanted to be looked at for the skateboarder that I was. I didn't want to be the 36-year-old sk... JASON LEE I don't want to put myself in any kind of a box as far as my sound goes, because being an artist... LUKE COMBS ADAM DEVINE Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, I'd be on the mic trying to hype up th... FLAVOR FLAV RON HOWARD
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Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach. ADAM OATES I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point... ADAM OATES You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no dif... ADAM OATES Even the superstars need to be coached once in awhile. ADAM OATES I went to the Hall of Fame with my dad. I can't say I really remember too much about it. ADAM OATES Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ba... ADAM OATES I was a punk. I think that's why I'm such a good person now, because I was such a bad guy th... ADAM OATES JOHN OATES I am just going outside and may be some time. 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I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do. 
I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I starte... 
I like to work; I like to be creative. I work in the entertainment industry where work may come up, ... 
I never wanted to be famous. It was amusing at first, but now I hate it. I just wanted to be respect... 
When I was really little, I wanted to be a wrestler so I could be like the girls I looked up to. My ... 
I plan to coach at University of Louisville for as long as I can maintain the passion I have for the... 
I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to... 
I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do ... 
I never wanted to be a brand director. I didn't want that kind of stamp. I wanted to be more lik... 
I never wanted to be that fad type of artist. When I looked up to artists, watching TV, I wanted to ... 
Everything I did is because I wanted to do it. If I weren't playing this arena, if I were playin... 
I never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who o... 
I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don't even... 
I think - you know, I want to intimidate people when I'm on the field. I want people to be scare... 
If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my fi... 
I don't want to get married - I've been there and done that. So I know what I'm talking ... 
I can't sculpt. But if I were a sculptor, as you start to get something that actually looks like... 
That's what I love about acting. There's never a set role. You can be a firefighter, you can... 
I've always had a career. I have been working hard since I was 15 years old. Being someone's... 
I've always said I've wanted to be around forever. I never wanted to be the latest, greatest... 
I didn't want to be an actress. I wanted to be a dentist, but you never know what life will brin... 
I wanted to be a film student again, as a man in my 60s. To go someplace alone and see what you can ... 
I wanted to create a heroine that was flawed. I wanted her to be a real person. She's selfish, s... 
I want to get away from couture just being done for a picture or for a single moment on the red carp... 
I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there'... 
For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission's already accomplished. I already won. As... 
I don't want music to be a job for me; I want it to be something I'm doing for fun. As long ... 
If I wanted to make a quick buck, there's far easier ways of doing it. What I want is to provoke... 
I hope somebody falls in love with me - other than my fiancee. But that's what you want. As a pl... 
Often, if there's something that I want to do, but somehow can't get myself to do, it's ... 
I used to say that if something happened to my mother, I wanted to die with her. That's because ... 
I'm a piece of work, man. I will do what I want, at all times, always. Nobody's going to per... 
If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you... 
Maybe I wanted to have kids because you want to leave behind lessons, leave behind everything that m... 
Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there... 
I was gonna be a cosmetologist. I didn't really want to. I wanted to be in a band. It kind of wo... 
You can do anything and be a star. You can dress like however you want, and you can do whatever you ... 
I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, I... 
I kind of got my big break with 'The Princess Diaries' and during the press rounds for that ... 
If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same rea... 
I actually have a life I said I wanted to have. I wanted to tell stories I want and be with my famil... 
You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a te... 
I can't do the same movies all my life. I'm conscious of that. But it's a trade-off. ... 
I like working. I wish I could say I made a deliberate choice to comedy, but it's just what came... 
If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can infl... 
I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape ... 
Before acting, I wanted to become a journalist. I also toyed with the idea of being a chef - but tha... 
Sometimes I'm happy - you can tell via Twitter. Sometimes I'm pissed off - you can tell via ... 
I didn't want to be a writer. First I wanted to act, and then I wanted to be a painter like my b... 
I always wanted to be a comedic actor - that's what I wanted from the job - to do comedy and to ... 
The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer. 
When albums gave way to CDs, people re-discovered their collection through their CDs. 
I have a lot of friends who are involved in everything from Americana to blues to R&B to pop to ... 
You need so much energy and encouragement to write that if someone says something negative, some of ... 
When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying is there is too much ... 
Keep a light, hopeful heart. But Âexpect the worst. 
Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear... 
I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room o... 
When I was getting started, I was so busy just fighting my way through, and I was under contract at ... 
When you wear a mask and create a character, nothing will pigeonhole you faster. 
Once people take ownership over the decision to receive feedback, they're less defensive about i... 