Quotes About Ambition

If I was going to go to college, I had to have a scholarship. By my sophomore year, it was evident golf was not going to be the path.

Since my sophomore year in high school, I knew I didn't want to do anything but be a professional athlete. I knew when I got to college there was no way anybody was going to stop me from being an NFL player.

With my height in high school, I was really thinking basketball. But I guess I wasn't that good, because my sophomore year I didn't make the team. That was a really brutal moment for me.

I used to lie in bed and imagine I was performing at the Albert Hall, not that I'd ever been there. I took lessons with a German teacher when I was quite young. But it turned out I had a very high soprano voice, which I didn't like at all.

I really wanted to be an opera soprano.

I didn't want to be Nelsons's wife. I wanted to be soprano Kristine Opolais.

I am a sore loser. It's not that I'm so competitive with others. But I'm competitive with myself. I like to do better than I did before.

I applied to NASA four times. And finally, they said, Wally, you know, we're sorry, but you don't have an engineering degree. I said, well, I'll get one.

I cannot hide being sorry for failing to move to Juventus.

I feel like I was born and bred to stay self-motivated. I'm not one of those people who ho-hums and feels sorry for himself when something's bad.

Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked.

I don't regret any past. I am not there. I am not sorry not to make pictures, because I know one day I will do it. I intend to live 150 years.

Sorry, no, I'm never satisfied with my drumming.

If I give up my career as a skater simply because I fear I won't show my best performance, I would be really sorry later in life.

That Mick Jagger, I feel sorry for him. After all these years he still can't get no satisfaction.

If there were some people who considered me a joke, I'm sorry about that. But I did not do it for any other reason except that I loved to ski jump, and I had hopes that by my doing it, other people in my country would take up the sport.

I try to score in every game and I don't feel sorry for anybody: If we win and I score that's fine, nothing else matters.

I went to school for eight years to be a dentist. Sorry if the person in the fifth row doesn't like it and thinks I should be a bag guy because people hate the dentist. People might not like the dentist, but they do like people who chase their dreams.

I try to score in every game, and I don't feel sorry for anybody.

When you go though the door to the big league, your band is no longer your band. I wouldn't want anyone to feel sorry for us. We'd worked and we'd gone for it. We were pretty gung-ho. I liked our attitude.

I was kind of burned out, a little jaded, and just sort of disillusioned by all the 'Mighty Duck' movies and everything just being about making money and not really caring about scripts anymore.

I think I always wanted to be an artist. I sort of just followed my passion right out of high school, and everything kind of evolved for me.

I was a dozy boy; I'd like to have been like James Dean, but I was more Arthur Askey - pathetically rebellious in a cheeky, chappy sort of way.

In any film business, if you're trying to get your next film made, you would never say, 'Oh, my last film was a cult film.' I'd say, 'Oh, great, well I hope this one isn't!' I always say to Johnny Knoxville, 'How do you do it? You sort of do the same thing we did, except you made millions, and I made hundreds.'