Quotes About Ambition

For me, the American Dream was to go racing; for others, it's to pursue whatever their goals may be.

What matters to me is that I get the most out of myself and my racing.

Racing is something I've always wanted to do, so it's my dream come true.

There is clearly this gene inside me or this thing inside me that I've always had in my blood. I don't know, but since very little I've always wanted to be in racing cars, and that was without knowing who my dad was and what he was doing for a living.

Finishing races is important, but racing is more important.

It's hard to find the motivation to perform at 100 percent when you're trying to find yourself, trying to figure out what feel you need, really when you feel like you're not racing for anything.

I'm an intense guy, I want to do more and my mind is racing at 100mph.

When I turned 16, I got my driver's license like the rest of my classmates, but I also got an extra present: a two-day practice session in a Formula Ford: my first open-wheel racing car and the first step on the ladder toward becoming a professional driver.

I will do something, time to time, with motor racing. But I'll never go back, I think, to drive full-time because I've lost that anger, that desire.

I want to be up front racing.

I'm so used to being in this racing world. This is what I want to do. I don't like doing anything else.

I didn't get into racing to make friends.

I always want to be racing.

Anybody and everybody's going to get it. I'm not racing through my division. I'm cleaning it out. So if you want two L's, you're going to get two L's, and if you're looking for one, come fight 'Blessed.'

Don't get me wrong: I've had a lot of fortune, to come where I've come from, to be able to move to Europe, to go racing. But I had that fortune behind me. I grabbed it with both hands, and I made the best of it.

I remember my dad telling me that if I wanted to start racing motocross, I had to get a job and pay for it myself. So I did. As soon as I was able to drive myself to work, I got into racing motocross at age 15.

It doesn't matter if it's cards, doesn't matter if I am racing home from dinner or something, I just want to be the first to do it. That's just kind of my mentality. That's been my mentality for a long time. It's kind of the way I was raised.

I have never been ready 100% even when I have been racing on my, let's say, gold times.

When you are a kid racing karts, you want to be an F1 driver.

Many people talk about me entering the history books as the first female in 22 years and what a big moment it was. And I'm very flattered that I managed to do something historic, but in all honesty I was out there for me as a racing driver and to show everybody what Susie Wolff is capable of not to put my name in the history books.

I am so competitive I cannot imagine myself without a racing car.

I'd love a racing career, but as I didn't start until I was 28 I missed years of experience.

I'm simply trying to go as far as I can go in racing.

When I decided to stop as a racing driver in 2015, I knew I wanted to continue with the challenge of competitive motorsport.