Quotes About Ambition

I'm going to try to jump over people, and I'm going to try to run all day. If my body lets me, I'll do it.

It was hard because every kid from high school wants a chance to make the jump to the minors to see what they can do. But in the end, it wasn't difficult for me because I wanted to come to Rice. I could learn a lot more by coming here.

When I left university, I didn't want to jump into anything right away. Music certainly wasn't a burning ambition.

When you get a chance to get a top five player, which doesn't come very often, you have to jump on it.

My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'

I'm of course jumping right in with the attitude that I can win the Eurovision Song Contest - or at least finish in second place!

I was told before that one of the hardest jumps to do, painlessly, is the one from playing clubs into playing arenas. I am completely aware of that now.

I'm the kind of guy that jumps at an opportunity.

Our goal is to play into late June and don't take the process for granted.

The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.

All junior artistes feel they will become like Amitabh Bachchan or Shah Rukh Khan. That is everyone's dream in the industry.

I was a hotshot as a junior. When I was 18, I really got into fiddling around. I completely lost interest in golf, and I guess all I could think about was going to college, getting married and having babies.

I've carried my chip with me my entire career. I've had to fight and claw for every position I've had. I sat on the bench as a junior in high school, I had to compete my senior year in high school to get the job. I competed again at Vanderbilt before having success.

I always felt there was a chip on my shoulder at the junior stage, the amateur stage.

When I was at Lakeridge High School, in my junior and senior years, my choir and theater department raised money so we could go to New York and see Broadway shows. It really changed my life.

Miss America paid for my junior and senior years in college.

I want to prove I'm the best junior middleweight in the world.

I had to decide if I was going to try a junior college or walk on somewhere. I even thought about changing sports. But I eventually decided that football was my passion.

I willed myself through a junior college to a university and, ultimately, a Ph.D.

Even in junior high, I always knew I had a talent for music and I knew I could make money that way.

In junior high, some would've seen me as a professional, a lawyer, a doctor, an engineer. Others would've seen me in jail. All depends on who you talked to.

When I was in junior high school, I knew I really wanted to sing.

Yes, from the time I was in junior high school I decided I wanted to be a chemist. I didn't quite know what a chemist was, but I kept it up and got my Ph.D. in physical chemistry.

I started doing stand-up when I was 16, my junior year in high school. My two friends and I would sit at home watching stand-up. They kept saying I should try it, and so I did.