Quotes About Ambition

I would love to work with PJ Harvey some day.

Sometimes I feel like a has-been who never was.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Saying, 'I'm going to hang up my hat today, and I'm retiring,' it's not a concept for me, and it never has been. I figure, when I'm 81, I'll play 81-year-old parts, hopefully.

When I was in college and high school so I had it in my head that I can coach high school wrestling. Honestly, wrestling was my end all and be all, I had all my chips in that hat, that was it for me.

I used to think that I wanted to be a hat maker, but I don't think that would have worked out.

I wanted to do something where I could hang my hat.

Anybody who thinks that they should lead the country should go ahead and put their hat in the ring. I am not among them. And I want to be unequivocal about that. There are no circumstances. I don't want to be coy about this.

You can accomplish whatever you want to. You just got to throw your hat in the ring. You've got to get out there and do it.

I had always wanted to don the director's hat and was waiting for the right time.

When 'Wherever I Lay My Hat' went to number one in 1983, I was still driving a green Viva HC that my dad had given me. People would see me drive past and say, 'It can't be him,' but you don't get any money until about six months after a record is a hit.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

I hate auditioning so much.

In everything I've done, I always just hated to lose more than I like to win.

I'm trying to dominate, and if you dominate, you're going to be hated because you're going to talk so much stuff.

I went to London for drama school but I hated it.

I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it.

I was very competitive. I hated losing. No matter what, I had to win.

I was good. I probably could have gone to the NFL. I just hated practice.

I'd always been a very competitive boy - I hated coming second.

Winning was everything to me. I hated to lose.

I hated reading - I was not a 'good kid' - but I was determined when I put my mind to something.

I have never hated my job; I only hate its negative results every time I attempt to do something amazing.

I didn't have any friends when I was at Radio 1. I didn't hang out with anyone and I didn't hang around after work. The other DJs hated me because first I was given the 'Breakfast Show,' and then I got on television.