Quotes About Ambition

When I started off riding, you dream about being champion jockey. Then I wanted to be champion jockey again. Then I wanted to ride 200 winners in a season. Then, when there was a chance of riding more winners than Richard Dunwoody, that was my goal.

When the Americans see someone like Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg, who made billions thanks to their talent and determination, the first thing they say to themselves is, 'I want to be like him.' This, in many ways, is the engine that drives Western society: The desire to make it like the winners.

Global competition is about winners and losers.

The Hamptons are filled with people who are winners Monday through Friday.

As captain, I want us to be ambitious; I want us to be winners - but above all, I hope we will show how much we love the game by passing the ball and achieving success through our technical and tactical approach.

I think if you can find competitive people, they'll make any environment that they go to winners.

I think sometimes people will look at the 'X Factor' winners or they will look at reality TV shows and they will think actually you can have instant success, fame, money overnight.

That's something I learned at Lyon: how humble and grounded the best players in the world are. They're always wanting more. At Lyon, they're winners. At England, it's the same.

I want my kids to win. Winners get the corner office, the big house, the hot wife, the whole nine.

You can look at any industry and sector and then figure out how high is your glass ceiling. Do you want to diversify or do you want to penetrate the ceiling? Because the ones who break the glass ceiling are going to be big-time winners, but it will be a longer-term view on things and requires a lot more courage, a lot more guts.

You dream of scoring hat-tricks and scoring last minute winners when you are young.

Every fight is a must-win because we are winners.

Winning is fun... Sure. But winning is not the point. Wanting to win is the point. Not giving up is the point. Never letting up is the point. Never being satisfied with what you've done is the point.

People just don't understand how obsessed I am with winning.

My key to surviving and winning is hustle. I think once you lose your hustle, you lost everything.

I feel you can be down and out but if you are determined, nothing can stop you from winning.

It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.

The determination to win is the better part of winning.

Winning isn't everything, but wanting it is.

Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything that comes in second.

As a player, you want to win everything as much as you can. If you're a footballer, you're a winner. When you then step up to the first team and you win something with them, that feeling is multiplied massively because you're at the top of the club and now you're winning so you want it more and more.

Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.

I'm a mad dog whose only concern is winning.

Winning isn't everything, but it sure beats anything that comes in second.