Quotes About Ambition

If I had stuck to my knitting, I would have had a wonderful career having a delicatessen in Blacktown.

I'd like to get more bit-acting roles. I don't know if my talent would allow for a long dialogue, but I could definitely knock out three lines. I'd kill it.

I want to knock out both Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko, and I don't care what order they fall in.

Of course there's going to be times when I'm going to have to step up and knock down corner 3s, but I don't want to settle all the time.

I'm a great believer that if you knock on enough doors and stay at the level maybe an opportunity comes.

If I keep playing well for Leicester, all I can do is keep trying to knock on the door.

I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.

Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, they never get around to what they want to do.

I don't come with the goal of submitting, knocking out or getting bonuses. I come to do my job, to show that a humble guy can chase what he wants.

Hollywood's not knocking on our door. They're banging down the door with a sledgehammer.

I can imagine they're asking for someone, and someone is asking for me. Everyone knows I keep asking for Wonderboy, and I will - I'll keep knocking on the door.

Part of the early Who career was all about knocking people's confidences out.

One day, you're a nobody, and the next, you're in a movie that everybody is talking about. But Hollywood has a way of knocking you back down to Earth.

When I was younger, I did my first audition at 'Eurovision.' I was about 17. After my first audition, I blacked out; I was just like, 'I can't do this.' I'm not knocking it or anything - it's been around for years. I'm just very, very happy I made that decision myself. I think that's one of the best decisions I've ever made.

I'd always wanted to write a novel, but after attending film school, I'd spent five years knocking on Hollywood's door and had put that idea aside.

When Manchester United and Jose Mourinho come knocking at the door, it is an opportunity of a lifetime and one that I could not turn down.

The guy who runs Big Day Out doesn't like us for some reason; I don't even know why. We do all the other festivals, and we enquired about it. Who knows, maybe he'll eventually crack, but maybe not. We're just going to keep knocking on his door late at night saying, 'Come on, dude!'

If Manchester United come knocking, you can't turn that down.

I want that fight with Jarrett Hurd and I want to be the one that knocks Jarrett Hurd out and takes his belts.

Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.

I was big enough, strong enough, knowledgeable enough, to have a successful career without being the top top guy.

She is such a doer, Cara - she is so ambitious. She has always known what she wants, and she's a hustler. Sometimes I call her, and I'm like, 'You need to help me hustle,' and she is like, 'Come on!'

I've always been the kid who's known what they wanted to do.

I'd wanted to become a doctor and couldn't - yet became the best known doctor in the galaxy.