Quotes About Ambition

I wanted to be a jockey.

I wanted to be a disc jockey.

All I really wanted was to be a full-time disc jockey.

You don't want to wait for that aged jockey role.

I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.

When I say I am going to win a world title, I mean it; when I say I'll fight the best, I mean it; I say I'll fight Joe Calzaghe because I wanted to. When he vacated, I lost sleep over that. It had nothing to do with money or the belt. He was renowned as the best super-middleweight in the world and that is what I want to be.

My cousin Joe was just the coolest kid and I wanted to be like him. He had girls, could do whatever he wanted and he was a bricklayer, so I decided to do that.

My craziest ambition is to take John Madden's job and salary.

I'd love to have done 'John Carter.' I'd love to work for the Disney Corporation.

I want to be like Johnny Bach or Pete Carril or Tex.

If one thing is very clear - in order to get my life back, there can be no Johnny Gargano in NXT.

I'm a big fan of character actors like Johnny Depp and Gary Oldman. My goal is to continue playing character roles in indie films and move into playing character leads.

Boris Johnson has only ever cared about Boris Johnson.

I was chasing that Demetrious Johnson fight. It just really didn't seem like it wanted to work itself out.

What's going to build my name the most is by beating Demetrious Johnson. I think he's the best pound-for-pound in the world. I'd love that fight.

Why did I want to be an astronaut? That's not an easy question to answer because I know a lot of kids want to be astronauts when they grow up but it stuck with me and I think just maybe growing up in Houston and always having the astronauts and the Johnson Space Center in my backyard, I was always aware of the space program.

I didn't join a bank because my father worked in a bank or because I thought I was going to be a banker or because I thought I was going to be where I am today.

Looking back, I got the bed I wanted and I lay in it. I didn't want to go to America. If you want to join that world, you have to go and live there, and that was something I could not have done. I am very much about family. It doesn't matter where I live, but I feel very needful of my people around me. Besides, theatre is my first love.

Why did I not join one of the top five clubs in Europe? Because I am no longer one of the top five players around, and neither are Inter among the five best clubs.

I was always a secretary in the early days, before we decided we were brave enough to join Equity and see if this thing has any legs.

Iran wants to join the group of countries that want to know about the biggest things, like space.

I finally said, 'I don't care if you're the first person in your family to be a lawyer.' Everybody thought what I was doing was really exciting, but it was not moving me one bit. And that's when I decided to join city government in Chicago, and that changed my life.

I didn't know whether to join the army or go to art college.

At 9, I started taking classes at Sylvia Young Theatre School. One day, they asked if I wanted to join their agency. You get in if you're cute, I guess.