Quotes About Ambition

My hobby is work.

So many of my dreams were to actually be able to make a living of what I did as a hobby.

I started making Super 8-mm films when I was about six years old and just never stopped. It was always just a hobby, but it's one of the few hobbies that can actually become a career. You know what? I think it was my plan from when I was six that this is what I was going to do.

One day we were in Limerick... and then, a few weeks later, we were being flown around to play. When we started, it was just a hobby. It wasn't any big ambition.

For me, acting is not a hobby. It is a career that I have chosen and was not willing to let go of so easily after seven years of hard work.

I was told growing up that the arts were just a hobby - that I couldn't do it as a career.

I wish I were a character actor. Of course, if I played hockey without a mask, I could become one.

I played hockey my whole life until my ambition outstripped my ability, which happens to most Canadians around 15 or 16 years old.

Hockey is my first love, and I devote most of my time to hockey only. But if I get time, I won't mind working in films, too.

But once I left home to play hockey, it was a commitment to be the best I could be and try to make the NHL.

If you play hockey, you might as well win.

For as long as I can remember I wanted to be a professional hockey player.

I don't just want to be a drag-flicker. I want to be become a complete hockey player.

I never look at myself as a black player. I think of myself as a hockey player that wants to be the best player in the league.

If you have a success in your life, why can't we hold on to that? Why can't that be good enough for a lifetime; why do we always have to be ramping up?

I might have companies, I might have buildings, I might have art. But money? No, I'm not holding that.

My mom didn't want me to go to college. She didn't want me to read - when I read, I may as well have been holding a pineapple.

Bring the fights on. If I'm going to be the champ, I gotta beat everyone anyway, so what does sitting and waiting and holding my position do?

I want to be the best. The only thing holding me back is me.

There are pictures of me holding a basketball before I could even walk or talk. I feel like it's something that I've been manifesting since I was a child. It's a dream come true.

I don't know what my future holds. I'm gonna love playing football for as long as I can, but there's a lot of other things that I would love to accomplish.

I think there is this huge hole in Shakespeare that you do not know why Macbeth is who he is.

I am never on holiday.

I just work 18 hours a day, every day. And I don't go on holidays. And so, I guess I will die young.