Quotes About Ambition

Winning the Open in general would mean the world to me. It's the one championship that I've dreamed about winning more than any other, because you know it's the pinnacle of golf for a British player and I think to do it at St Andrews? It doesn't get any better than that.

What I wanted in life always was to write something as good as 'Pinocchio.' I wanted to write. I wanted to evolve. I wanted to grow.

It was actually after I saw 'Pinocchio' that I thought I might try and work in that industry in some way.

I can't actually pinpoint anything that made me want to be an actor - I just did. And then anything after that just fueled it.

Pretty much my whole career, I have been aggressive. I have always been a guy that goes at pins. That's kind of the way I've been all my career, and I don't know, really, if I can change.

I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to be the most optimistic person.

Any female who thinks that she needs a female in front of her in order to learn as much as she can, or to envision a career in a particular field, has declared herself a follower rather than a pioneer - and a follower based on a characteristic irrelevant to intellectual achievement.

My family was always really encouraging, but acting was always something I thought was a bit of a pipe dream.

It's so odd because I don't even know if I'm cut out for it, but being a movie star guy, I sort of end up gravitating toward the Coen brothers. That's one of the reasons my wife and I moved to L.A.: that however much of a pipe dream that would be, I moved to L.A. because I'd love to work with the Coen brothers.

Maybe playing in the NHL would be pretty nice, but that's more of a pipe dream for me.

I never imagined even playing in the NFL. It seemed like a pipe dream.

I'm Pisces with Leo rising. The Pisces part is the dreamer. The Leo says, 'Let's execute.'

I look at Weili Zhang and see myself. She has heavy hands and if we exchange, I want to be better than her. When she fires, I want to be the sniper and her with a small pistol.

The destination is the belt, but you never arrive at just the belt. You're always on the way to something else. You never truly arrive anywhere. But winning the belt, it's a nice pit stop.

Baseball, in my opinion, would be a lot better if you could just make the same salary as everybody else in the world, and you don't deal with any of the other stuff. But that's not how it is. The main thing is I want to pitch against the best players in the world, and you can't do that playing in a pickup baseball league in your town.

When you get on the pitch, you've got to take your chance, and that's what I'm trying to do.

At Inter, I was the best-paid player in the world. But it's not a question of money, because when I go out onto the pitch, I only have one thing in mind - winning.

My decision was that after nearly three years at Celtic - with everything we'd achieved and the success we'd had on the pitch, the improvements off the pitch - then it was time to move on to my next challenge.

I just want to keep on getting better and improving. Those extra hours on the training pitch, whether it be with the boys or individually, I am just looking to improve.

My mindset's just focused on looking forward, bettering myself, getting on the pitch, on the training pitch, doing what I can do to improve myself.

As a producer and director, I've tried for years to get properties off the ground for girls, and I've been hitting a brick wall.

If I dream that I'm directing, it's not a film, it's like a commercial for cotton candy, and I've got four feet of cotton candy all around me that I've got to break through, like a brick wall or a fortress.

What I've realized is that we're our own harshest critics. We give ourselves limitations. But I want to push through that wall, on a creative and personal level.

If you can miss getting up in the morning and running into a wall, I miss playing football. I'll never be a frustrated athlete.