Quotes About Ambition

If I wasn't a footballer, I don't know what I would have been. But that was through sheer determination, a good family and lots of luck.

I don't think I could make a good film, but I could definitely score a good film.

There are some jobs that you go for because achieving them would take your career in a direction that you would like it to go, but mostly, I want to play the roles and have had the great good fortune and opportunities to play some fantastic roles and been very, very fortunate.

Over everything, over friendships or anything, is my kids - and obviously fighting for that belt is my kids' future. It doesn't sound too nice, but if my mom had the belt, she better give it up because my kids gotta eat. If I'm willing to fight my mom, imagine a good friend.

When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea.

I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of what they were.

I went to college, got a job. Not a good job or anything but I was fully set to be an office employee for my life.

I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.

You do your work, and you do the best you can. That's what my parents taught me, and I think what they were saying was, 'If you do a good job, other things may come your way.' That's really been the way my career has unfolded throughout the years.

I'd do a really good job playing Trisha Yearwood.

My dream was always to play for England, having grown up in the U.K . Playing India as part of my first test match was a coincidence, and it was never an issue. My job was to do a good job for England!

Money and good life had never been my goal.

My biggest worry is that we have to keep making good music, and I want to do well, but I wonder if I will be able to.

Whether I've been here three years or 10 years, my agenda is still in the same place as it was when I first came in: it's to continue to make good music, and raise the bar to grow and evolve as a person, as an artist, as everything; just to be a better me.

I am not competing with anyone, I just want to focus on good music, content-driven films and do well in life.

I just want to keep doing good projects with good people.

The tennis life is very short, as I say. And my first goal is always to be a good person.

Don't make your living with cinema because Hollywood will take you, will eat you, will destroy you. This is the reality. You have a good picture, have success, you take the person and they destroy you.

I was loved in Liverpool, I had good relationship with the fans and my team-mates but I felt I could do better.

Every time I think I'm going to take it slow, a good script comes along.

I think young folks have a good sense of what they want to do.

I aspire to be a part of a good story, because then, the actor will automatically shine through.

I'm never content, and I don't know if that's a curse or a good thing.

Competition, I think, is always a good thing.