Aspiring Athlete Gifts

'I told my teacher that I won't be returning to school. I'm trying out for a pro basketball team, and her services are no longer required.'

'I want to be a professional Polo player too when I grow up...Can I have your autograph please?'

New Years Resolutions: Join Gym. . .Cancel Gym.

"To be honest, it just collects dust."

"I wanted to be a baseball player 'til I found out they send you to the showers."

'When I grow up, if I don't become a pro basketball player, about about 'spin doctor'?'

'I want to be a professional Polo player too when I grow up... Can I have your autograph please?'

Banked on a college degree without an NBA career to fall back on.

"I'm thinking of giving up thinking about trying to run a marathon this year."

Charlie's medical advice always went in one ear and out the other.

"Ugh . . . nevermind."

"Because when you're drafted by the pros, you'll have to be able to sign your contract. That's why you have to attend first grade."

"Winning isn't the only thing, Junior. It's how much money you can get in a pro contract."

"Coach said I can be catcher if I gain 30 pounds."

"I could do that!"

Lazy man reading a fitness book.

'I wanna be a hockey goalkeeper.'

"So he got a trophy for good sportsmanship – that doesn't mean he won't go to law school."

'So I'm playing major league baseball, sweating and toiling in the dirt and grass day after day. But I always dreamed that, someday, I'd make it here.'

'It's great that you want a career in football, Timothy, but don't you think being a striker would be more fun than being a goalpost.'

'Next time up, I'm calling my shot: I'm pointing to the catcher's mitt.'

'He wants to be a footballer.'

"I can't believe I didn't make the football team!"

'When you talk about playing, 'at the next level', you mean lawyering, right, not the NBA?'

"Where would you see yourself in five years' time?"

What else is there to wish for?

Exercising

'And when your mother said that you would never be an Olympic gymnast, how did that make you feel?'

'Anything is possible in our great country, son. If an Afro-American can become president, a white man can become a pro basketball player.'

'Hey guys?. . . Help us think what Dale could do for his '15 minutes of fame.''

A backup plan might be a good idea, in case 'being a celebrity' doesn't work out...

One day, he hoped to hit the big time.

"When I grow up I'd like to model for a pasta company."

"You can achieve anything if you put you mind to it."

"It's beginning to appear as if I'll never have greatness thrust upon me."