Quotes About Ambition

People used to laugh at me like, 'Hahaha, you can rap? You? We don't believe it!'

From the beginning of my rap career, since I was seen and heard, I always had a store.

I can rap, play ball, design T-shirts, all that.

Everybody was down on me saying I can't rap, so I wanted to show everybody that I could actually do this. That's what motivated me.

I'm always trying to do every part myself, you know what I mean? I'm trying to sing, rap, whatever. I'm trying to do it all.

I'ma just rap and do me.

I didn't tell anybody that I wanted to rap when I was in high school.

Growing up listening to rap music, you almost feel like you should have haters. That's an important part of being a successful musician. It's a good thing, I guess.

For the moment, I am more focused on classical chess rather than rapid and blitz, as I am hoping to make my move in the classical World championship cycle.

The world has become rapidly more competitive.

I'm a rapper but I'm more of a hustler.

In kindergarten I had to draw a picture of what I wanted to be when I grew up. I drew a rapper. I didn't really know what a rapper was or what they did - I just wanted to do it.

I'm the top rapper in the world.

Me being a rapper takes up too much of my time. I can't really do the things I need to do, but I need the money.

My goal is to be the most ignorant, richest rapper I could be.

I never wanted to be no rapper.

Where I'm from in Harlem, everybody look like a rapper.

I used to be focused on being the dopest rapper in the game, and then once that became what I was, I wanted something different, and I wanted to become the best businessman in the game. I wanted to learn how to master the business like I mastered the rap.

Being a rapper and still trying to pursue an education is really overwhelming sometimes.

I play a girl called Patti in the film 'Patti Cake$,' and she's a girl from New Jersey, and she dreams of being a famous rapper.

I always envisioned myself being a rapper and being in the game and having success, but you never know what it feels like or how you're going to be when you're there.

My only scheme was to be a rapper.

I didn't want to be a rapper full time. You know, Big L kinda - God bless the dead - influenced me to do that.

Everybody wants to be a rapper - even country musicians.