Quotes About Ambition

We're so sure of what our unlived lives would have been like that we feel guilty for not living them - for not living up to our potential.

Everything I did is because I wanted to do it. If I weren't playing this arena, if I were playing a club, I'd still be doing it because that's what I want to do. I love playing the guitar.

My ambition was just to be able to play guitar.

I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.

I always wanted to be able to show off like the guitar players do. I think I managed that alright!

I played guitar when I was young and never really considered it as a way to make a living.

If I wanted to be a celebrity, I would have taken guitar lessons.

I've always known from the time I was eight years old what I wanted to do. I would have been fairly content to be someone's lead guitar player.

Before I even became a guitar player, I wanted to be a Beatle. That was my first dream as a musician, was to be like a Beatle.

I wanted to be a guitar player.

My first musical dream was to be a guitar player, and believe me, it's still in there.

I went from wanting to be a Beatle to becoming a 'widdly-widdly' guitar player.

So, really, I just try to be the best guitar player I can be - not the best female guitar player, not the best 'X amount of years' guitar player, or whatever - just the best guitar player.

I've always wanted to be the best guitarist in the world, ever since I was eight years old.

When I was a kid, I was interested in folk music. But rock represented power, and I became the best rock guitarist in my school.

I was going to be a jazz-fusion guitarist. I came to London at one point with my mate, and we were going to make it. We spent three days there and went back home to our mummies.

Go big or go home.' I used to say that. I was addicted to that. The lifestyle, the fame. The girls. The parties. And with that came a lot of people who didn't really care about me. They were just leeches. Just very bad people. I had to learn a lot. I was very gullible.

All my life I wanted to be a bank robber. Carry a gun and wear a mask. Now that it's happened I guess I'm just about the best bank robber they ever had. And I sure am happy.

I would like one day to play an FBI cop, just so I can hold the gun and shoot.

I always looked up to Slash from Guns N' Roses, and I always pictured myself being a rock star and playing the guitar, just going crazy.

I called my show 'Power' because, for me, the whole series is about the way my main character, Ghost, is power-less over his circumstances, even though he has almost endless access to money and guns.

I now dream of working with Ilaiyaraaja, who is considered to be A.R. Rehman's guru.

You've gotta go for it, and go for it with gusto.

I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive.