Quotes About Ambition

I am not in a hurry to be number one. I don't want to be in the rat race in that sense.

Proving yourself in a field where the casualty rate is so notoriously high is an ongoing challenge.

Once I got my card, I had a goal to make the top 64 and to try and keep my Tour card for the following year and to progress nicely. But to progress at the rate I have, and to feel as comfortable as I am starting to feel - I have to pinch myself.

All of us have to win games. Whether we like it or not, the graduation rates and all the things people are talking about aren't as important as winning.

Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.

I've always believed the greater danger is not aiming too high, but too low, settling for a bogey rather than shooting for an eagle.

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

You know, our ratings after this match will be very close - I think I can also become the world number one in the not too distant future. However, I'm sure that Garry will also have something to say about this!

Times are harder there right now. I think it's been well publicized. We are - the show is not where I want it to be right now. The ratings are not where I want them to be. I want to make it better.

I like to be at the top of the ratings.

In some ways, being No. 2 in the ratings is a real shot in the arm, a kick in the pants.

Every single television product has the ambition to chase ratings, every one of them. Many have other ambitions, for many, ratings are not #1. But my experience on TV, and on the entertainment side, has been entirely ratings-based. When I look at TV I look at ratings. And I never second guess ratings. Never.

Lots of people dream big and talk about big bold ideas but never do anything. I judge people by what they've done. The ratio of something to nothing is infinite. So just do something.

I know myself that we goalscorers are selfish and always thinking about our goalscoring ratio.

How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?

I wouldn't mind the rat race - if the rats would lose once in a while.

'Broadway' is one of the big American words. It's exciting to be given the chance to rattle around in one of the big words.

Our intention when we first started as a band, was to be a rave band. We kind of just got it wrong. We tried, but we didn't have the talent or the knowledge to make a rave record.

'Dil Chahta Hai' was too raw. We only thought about the film. We never thought where the film was going to go. We wanted to make a film on our own terms.

I spent two years at NXT and a lot of times questioned, 'When is this going to happen?' or 'Is this actually going to happen? Am I going to make it to 'Raw?''

I want to be the longest-reigning Raw Women's Champion. And I'm going to do whatever it takes to make sure that happens.

I think the guys who have been on NXT and got to go to 'RAW' or 'SmackDown' got the full experience. That's what I want.

You need raw talent to be successful.

'Raw' wants to be the better brand; 'SmackDown' wants to be the better brand. A bunch of alphas on both brands.