Quotes About Ambition

I was so hungry when I started attempting acting. Not even to be a professional. Just to find out if I could act.

If I could find the perfect career of doing television and movies where I could sing, that would be great.

If I could say what my dream role to dance was that I didn't get to do, if I had to choose one, it would be Giselle in 'Giselle.'

I got in MMA for one reason: to see if I could be the best in the world.

When I started coaching, I wanted to find out quickly if I could do it.

My goal early in becoming a head coach so young was to find out if I could do it. I just wanted to see if I could be a good head coach and then start learning from head coaching.

If I could have had the opportunity to be a full-time fighter while I was one of the best in the world, what could I have done then?

I didn't want to work with my father. I wanted to see if I could develop my own career.

I don't sing. If I could sing or dance, I would have done something really gross in a G-string by now - when I wasn't working and was desperate - and ruined my career.

As a kid, I used to go and wait at the gates of Melwood or look through the cracks in the wall just see if I could see any of the people I was looking up to, who we all wanted to aspire to become, when we were in the Champions League, the likes of Gerrard, Carragher and Alonso.

If I could choose anywhere in Brazil, the club I'd play for is Palmeiras.

I'd like to fight welterweight and lightweight at the same time if I could.

I don't know if I could have made it as an NBA player. But I knew I could make it as a coach.

I don't want to be the guy who said 'I could have did this, and I could have did that.' I want to be the guy to know if I could have or I couldn't do it.

I was never a sit-in-the-audience-type person. Even as a little kid, when I saw a band performing at a restaurant, I would ask them if I could sing a song.

When I was 19 my friends dared me to come to Los Angeles and see if I could make it down here.

If I could be anything, it would be a professional basketball player.

I had this idea when I left drama school that if I could do everything, I'd always be working.

As a kid, I thought if I could move my feet fast enough, I could run on water.

I feel like I had to prove myself a lot because people doubt you. If someone does doubt me it does ignite a bit of a fire.

I never thought that I couldn't do what I set out to do. It wasn't from arrogance; it was from ignorance.

I always ignore money.

I'm living my dream, and that's all you can ask for. At a certain point you have to ignore all the rest.

I was never lined up outside of my bosses office saying 'Give me an opportunity; there's not a woman in primetime'... I was just trying to be so good they couldn't ignore me.