Quotes About Ambition

My parents were determined to move into the middle class.

When you grow up middle class, you just always feel like you've got to be working, or you won't be able to pay the bills.

The beauty of not growing up middle class is that you don't think like the middle class. You don't have anything to protect, you know what I mean?

I come from a middle class family and I am not overambitious.

I really wanted to take 'Dilbar' to Africa and the Middle East in Arabic because it was also a perfect way to launch myself.

From Day 1 since I was in middle school, it's just to get better every day and not settle for anything, try to get better, try to improve, and try to stay hungry. That's not going to change.

I come from a middle-class family, where you grow up thinking about government service. But when I went to Harvard, I saw that entrepreneurs and business leaders were just like me. It gave me a feeling that I could also do such things.

I grew up in Rayagada in Odisha, in a middle-class family. But I always had the entrepreneurial bug.

I used to track back from midfield but I never saw myself as a defender. Dave Jones thought I could do the job and then Glenn Hoddle after that. He showed a lot of faith in me and told me, even back then, that I had the ability to play for England.

I'm not going to be running round at the back of the grid, or even in midfield, just for the sake of saying I've been in Formula One.

Over the long term, it is definitely my ambition to play in the midfield.

It is everyone's dream to play for England and we have got a lot of top players in that midfield and lot of competition. For me to break in there, I have got to keep the form up for club at the top level.

I might not always be given the respect that I should have, but it's what fuels me.

We always may be what we might have been.

If I'm going to do something, I might as well go for it.

I'm not driven by the mighty dollar.

I'm not joking - it's a top-three dream of mine to be on a comedy on HBO and to have it directed by Mike Judge and Alec Berg, and then on top of that, have it be with friends, two of them I've known for 10 years.

My brother Mike is the hardest working person I know.

I really want to work with Mike Leigh.

As a kid, I think every kid grew up watching Jordan, that was every kid's idol... you just wanted to be like Mike.

In 2008 or 2009, every big club wanted me: Juventus, Inter, Milan, Barca, Real, Chelsea, Manchester.

My dream is to be with AC Milan - I just hope to put them back on top.

I feel happy here and want to stay in Milan for ten seasons and then retire at the age of 36.

I will do everything to return AC Milan to the Champions League.