Quotes About Ambition

A trip to space is a big motivator to give up some things in your personal life. Obviously, you can't give up everything and you don't want to.

Directing your first film is like showing up to the field trip in seventh grade, getting on the bus, and making an announcement, 'So today I'm driving the bus.' And everybody's like, 'What?' And you're like, 'I'm gonna drive the bus.' And they're like, 'But you don't know how to drive the bus.'

Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.

It takes a lot more than just knowing how to put an outfit together to succeed in the fashion industry, so more power to you if this is where you want to be; just don't expect it to be an extended trip to the mall.

If you're running a race, and you're looking at the lane to your right or your left, you're gonna trip instead of... focusing forward.

My first airplane trip was to Paris. I had this fantasy that I would become a model, and I did!

When I was in Barcelona, people thought I would join them, but that's not the case. Everyone knows that I think Barcelona is a beautiful club, but I don't know if I should see my career as a city trip.

At the age of 15, I bought a USB microphone on a trip to the United States with my family, and that was my first recording studio.

I'm not lookin' to go platinum or triple platinum.

You never think of being in that conversation for the triple crown. You don't even dream about that. It's a dumb dream. Get real.

The Triple Crown is an attractive target because it is so difficult to achieve.

I started in the lowest league in baseball, and I worked my way all the way up to Triple A and then to the big leagues. I never reached the level that I thought I would reach as a player. But that's the way it goes. So then I started from the bottom as a manager, and I worked my way up to managing the Dodgers for 20 years.

I always wanted to make a three-record set. 'Sign o' the Times' was originally supposed to be a triple album, but it ended up as a double.

I want to become double Olympic champion, triple Olympic champion, five-time world medallist.

The Triple Crown, or any of that stuff, is not my focus. My focus is on winning. I just hope people can be happy with that.

Triple H and I have wrestled many, many times, but never on a real meaningful stage. I would really enjoy that.

I'm really thankful for Triple H and our chairman Vince McMahon because when I came back from my surgery I basically was like, 'I want to be the face of this company and I want to bring something to the table.'

When I was in Class II, we used to walk about 5 km. to school. I did not know of Olympics or even athletics then. One day, a friend went in a car and left me behind. I was so angry, I wanted to run and outrace the car. I ran so fast that I tripped and fractured my knee.

I've been entrepreneurial since middle school. I was always arranging bake sales, dances and school trips to raise money for the Dalton School.

This may sound trite, but I believe it to be true: Entrepreneurship is the fabric of what America is all about.

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

While trying to protect the republic, the conspirators in Julius Caesar enable Mark Antony to triumph. In Rose Rage, the more Henry VI tries to fix things, the more they go wrong.

My first option is always to triumph at Real Madrid. After that, you never know what can happen.

This hunger of triumph is fundamental in order to get results.