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When I was ten, I wrote an essay on what I would be when I grew up and said I would be a professional soccer player and a comedian in off season.

— Will Ferrell

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

At times during high school and college I wished to be a sportswriter.

— Luke Ford

At nineteen I was pretty sure I was going to be a professional soccer player. At that time I played for one of the Norwegian premier leagues. But I tore ligaments in both knees, so I started studying business administration and economics and became a financial analyst, and I worked at a brokerage firm as a stockbroker.

— Jo Nesbo

There was a long stint during my childhood after I gave up on being a pro football player - we're talking sixth grade here - that I strongly considered a future writing and drawing comic books. I have been making stuff up ever since.

— Adam Ross

I'd grown up an athletic child, a competitive soccer player since age 4, with stints ranging from months to years in gymnastics, softball, volleyball.

— V. E. Schwab

Since I was in high school, I wanted to play professional football and professional baseball, be a two-sport star.

— Russell Wilson

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

— Jonathan Ames

I knew what I wanted to do in sport from the age of nine.

— Magdalena Neuner

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a footballer and racing driver, like all kids.

— Diego Della Valle

✗Opposing Perspectives

At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.

— Tanith Lee

When I was little, I had to write down what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I wrote, 'I want to be an actress-singer-dancer because you can be a rich fairy princess and tell someone off.'

— Ellen Greene