Quotes About Ambition

I feel like every single year I've gotten better and I want to continue with that trend.

I want to produce more number one hits but not follow trends blindly! What I really hope to achieve in the long-term is to get that cross-over status such as Calvin Harris and Avicii. I'd love to be a household name in pop music.

An actor is always looking for something. When your luck improves, trends change, you get one of those roles that do very well, sometimes even your worst work becomes a super success. So one can never predict what will happen tomorrow.

Years ago, I wanted to be like the girl Ne-Yo. You know, with the mid-tempo ballads - I come from the Babyface era. But that's not trendy; that's not hip-hop.

My big objective this season is to win three gold medals at the Olympics, in the road race, the time trial and the points race.

I knew I wanted to be a professional triathlete, but I didn't know it was possible until I won the junior champs. My dad said I should give Cambridge a go to see if I could do both, but it was only ever a trial.

I played a trial game for Reading against Brentford. Then the coach told me that they couldn't afford to take me on. So I went to see Brentford. I couldn't believe it when they signed me - they were in the league above Reading.

I had nothing to lose at my Fulham trial and I just gave it my all.

I think the first thing that I thought I would go and do as a career was be a rugby player. I had a trial with a club and it became very clear, very quickly that that wasn't going to be what I would end up doing. I was far too small and far too much of a lightweight, both mentally and physically, to play rugby at that level.

Going into Chelsea when I was around seven for the trial, there were loads of boys there.

When I came to the industry, I didn't know how to meet people, how to tell them that I'm good enough and how to get my first break. It was trial and error for us.

In 2007, I dreamed of Olympic gold but got outpointed in the Olympic trials.

It's been strange and weird watching the other girls at the U.S. Olympic trials just because I was training to be out there myself.

When I ran for governor, was I ambitious? Yes. Anyone, male or female, who goes through the trials of a campaign must be ambitious.

I always said if I didn't focus on basketball, then it would have been football. I was pretty good and was asked to go to England trials.

Football was always a dream, but a distant dream until when I was about to go to university. I'd had a couple of trials, but it wasn't a realistic dream, it was a kid's dream.

I've played football since I was seven - but loved basketball. Cire, who is one of six brothers, always played in the top two divisions in France. At the age of 15, I started having football trials. And, when I compared myself to other players, I thought, 'why them and not me?'

There was a time when I was studying in school when one of my coaches clearly told me I shouldn't be bowling at selection trials. We had a couple of off spinners from our own school and he said that if I bowled off spin, their chances would get affected. So, I didn't really bowl at the trials till I was in my late teens.

From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.

I went to South America with the idea that I would be an explorer, that I'd find lost tribes, become one of them, marry the chief's daughter and find riches of gold.

The trick is knowing what you want to do and then resolving to do everything you have to do to get there.

When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you.

You always supposed to have that i'm number 1 mentality, don't let anyone make you feel like you is number 2 when they not even worth being number 1 !!!

Sometimes you have to forsake what you want, to get what you want.