Quotes About Ambition

I will play the characters with last names like Sanchez and Gonzalez until the day I die, but I also want to play the 'Michelle Smiths.'

If you fight with big names, with legends of mixed martial arts like Alistair Overeem, Mark Hunt, like Fabricio Werdum, you will go to the highest rankings and get bigger and bigger names too.

I'd love to work with some of the people I've remixed for - Ed Sheeran or Chris Martin or The Weeknd. But it's not just big names like these guys that I want to collaborate with.

I want to write for big names like Whitney Houston and The Backstreet Boys.

I want the big fights, I want the big names, fights that will motivate me.

I'm not just looking to be famous and attach myself to famous names. I want to make history in the business in terms of creativity.

I want to fight the top guys in the world. Guys who have names. Guys who I don't mind trying to make a mark off of me by them trying to win, which, they're gonna become losers.

It's always been my dream to be among the big names of Colombia.

When you see your father playing in the first division, and you see players like Ronaldo with the crowd singing their names, you want that.

I want Keith Thurman. He has two of the belts, and we both have big names. It's an easy fight to make, and I want it.

I have a lot of big names on my side that I'm willing to fight, and I'm pretty sure they are willing to fight me, too.

I believe I am world class and it is only a matter of time before I am up there with the big names. I am a man on a mission and not going to be stopped.

I am going to go after the big names in America and the fights all the fans want.

I see myself as the best fighter in the world and that's because I have to. There can't be any other way. I can't go into a fight with the other names that are around my weight, who want the same as me, and not believe that I'm better than them.

I wanted to be up there with all those names like Max Steiner.

I still think I'm writing Nancy Drew with a mortgage.

No one's ever done what AC/DC did out of anywhere, really. Conquered the world, mate, that was the idea from the start. A little Napoleon in all of us.

I like people who don't accept boundaries. Like Florence Nightingale. And Napoleon or Louis XIV, though I'm not sure how much I'd have liked to meet them. I admire people who aren't circumscribed by circumstance.

I have read loads of books on Napoleon. For him to come from nothing and then lead his country, that fascinated me. It doesn't matter what you think of him. He did it.

I once read that there are more biographical works about Napoleon Bonaparte than any other man in history.

The act of founding a company is its own act of narcissism: 'I alone can do this.'

I'm in a business that invites narcissism, self-involvement, and egos being blown out of proportion.

You know, I'm a really individualistic person. I'm extremely narcissistic and egocentric, too. So I have one life, and I have to live it the way I want.

When I was growing up, there was still that narrative of 'you finish school, you go and get married, you become somebody's wife and you get kids and tend to them.' I think it is really important to reach for something.