Quotes About Ambition

I don't pick tournaments to score or rivals or other teams to score against. I'm a striker: every game I play, I want to score.

My parents did everything possible. My dad has worked from eight in the morning until nine in the evening to make it possible so I can play tennis. We had to cancel tournaments because we couldn't afford to go there.

I think the first step is definitely Top 5. From there, you can sort of see the end, and that's the top. In order to do that, you need to win Slams and big tournaments. That's just proven. There is no other way.

Everyone dreams of playing March Madness and playing in those tournaments, big-time games.

Of course, I want to play for England as often as I can and at major tournaments.

I always watched these tournaments and want to be seeded and get the bye and be in the second week of Slams and all that.

It has sunk into my head that I want to be winning four or five tournaments a season.

All the tournaments I enter I want to win, but especially in one of the biggest arenas we play in.

The point is to win the biggest tournaments and beat the biggest guys head to head. Then, if the computer ranking works out that you are No 1 in the world so be it.

When your friends win tournaments it is good for you in a way because it does fire you up. You see what it means to them and know you would like to enjoy the same thing.

My aim is to win as many tournaments as I play in but some people absolutely love snooker.

Now I want to push on, I don't want to be remembered for just winning one world title, I want to go on and win as many big tournaments as possible.

I mean what's the point of them becoming professional snooker players? If there's not much money in the game, if there's no guarantee of future tournaments, if no one knows what's going on.

I want to be remembered for as many tournaments as I can win and as many grand slams I can win.

Obviously, I want to do well in all tournaments, but if I had to pick, for sure Paris.

I believe now that I can win tournaments, and before I was just hoping.

That has alway been the goal. To be the best in the world, to win major tournaments.

My goal is to be competing to win tournaments that I'm playing instead of just content with making a quarter.

I'm entering tournaments every week trying to win.

I think I will have a lot of chance for big tournaments, especially grand slams.

I wasnt bothered about winning tournaments at the beginning. I just wanted to win enough money so I could stay on the tour, earn a living for my family. But then when you start to win, you just want more and more.

What got me to where I am today is a hunger and a desire to win tournaments, and all the trappings that came with that.

I did three club tours before I started playing concert halls, and the clubs were half full the first time around.

I wake up every day, I deal with hundreds of thousands, or millions, of dollars. I fund my tours by myself. I do merch by myself. I employ people. I have my own successful company.