Quotes About Ambition

I respect the ones who make it and leave their home base, but I'm good in Colombia.

I love my work, but my home life is so fulfilling that I don't tend to be driven by work ambitions.

I'm not a bunt guy, I'm a home run guy.

You don't hope to go up and hit a single. You go up and hope to hit a home run.

When I hit a home run I usually didn't care where it went. So long as it was a home run was all that mattered.

I don't like to sound immodest, but I believe in what I can do. Sometimes it's been frustrating because I haven't gotten to bat; if you're on the bench, and an unimaginative person doesn't see you as right for a certain role, you don't get the chance to hit the home run.

Before I was making music, I was homeless. I didn't have all the girls or any friends - and now I have everything that I wanted.

I don't want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education.

I just think if I can go from being a homeless kid with a dream of being in the biggest band in the world and making that happen, I can do a lot of other cool stuff, too.

I knew when I was 6. I just knew it; I didn't care about nothing else. If I didn't make it in this world, I would probably be homeless. I gave myself that little to fall back on.

I think a woman's role is not just confined to being a homemaker and have babies, but a lot more.

I was starting to do well at building homes and things like that. That interested me a lot as well. So I was debating whether to go do that full time or not.

I would have loved to have cracked America. When I tried, I got homesick. Then, when I was in New York, my nanna died, and I just wanted to come home.

I started dreaming about being an actor in Gwalior, and it feels amazing to shoot in my hometown.

I thought about the problems I had growing up: how I prioritised football over school, but people were telling me I wouldn't make it, that it wasn't possible. The thing is, I did make it, thanks to my own will and determination and the help of some people I had around me in my hometown.

I love my hometown, but 'Leave Fast' is the way I felt when I was 17, 18 - it's that fear that I'd never be able to do something else.

My new hometown is America. But I live with my work.

People saying I want to come here, who doesn't want to play for their hometown? That's a dream come true, if you're a kid growing up on the outskirts of L.A., to be the man in your city.

I wanted a future outside my hometown.

That was my dream since I was a kid, since I first saw a vale tudo event in my hometown of Sao Paulo. I wanted to compete.

George Foreman is back and he's in the middleweight division. That's the way I feel about fighting in my hometown.

My parents always taught me that my day job would never make me rich; it'd be my homework.

Every day, it was the same: school, homework, farm work, training. Getting hurt or dying might've been better than the life I was living.

I've been writing ever since I was a child: I used to give my English teacher extra homework and say, 'What do you think of it? Give me a mark.'