Quotes About Ambition

I thought I was going to be a Spur.

You will always have people to prove wrong. I always have done and I always will. I use that to spur me on and stay hungry and that's the big aim.

Other people's success spurs me on to do well and gives me motivation.

Everything has been put into what we all wanted at Spurs. Everybody wanted to become a top team, and that is what we have tried to do.

My ambition is to go back to Spurs and Rangers in some capacity and give something back that they gave to me.

I think I had set-backs, but I still always had that belief that I was going to play for Tottenham Hotspur. Even when I went out on loan to clubs, it was always to come back and be a Spurs player.

It's always been a dream to play at a club like Spurs.

I will take it step by step in trying to become number one for Spurs.

It's been five seasons now that I'm with Spurs, and I've got a little bit frustrated about Europe. We've got the talent to go further than we've done.

For me, it was clear from the beginning that I wanted to go to Spurs.

Don't forget I had only played one season at the highest level in Holland when Spurs bought me from AZ Alkmaar.

With the Premier League, Champions League, FA Cup, and League Cup, I will play many games with Spurs. And I'm going to enjoy all the playing time I get.

I had no ambition to be a football coach. I wanted to be a spy for MI5 or MI6.

I wanted to be a journalist. The other thing I wanted to be was a spy.

When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a ballerina. Not a dentist, like my father, or a homemaker, like my mother - and certainly not a writer, although I always loved to read.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a spy detective or a rock star.

I used to think, 'I'm going to write.' I knew that from quite early on, but I also thought, 'Maybe I'll be an explorer or a spy,' and it all came from books.

I am determined to play for Arsenal and be in the squad of Unai Emery.

I need to always improve and that is why I work hard to try and keep my place in the squad.

You come in on practice squad and you know you're not going to play in the game, you know you're not going to get any reps. It's frustrating... you don't want to just practice your whole life. You want to practice to play.

But in football my main aim was to become a pro. I became one and played in the first division. But then I reached the Premier League and before I knew it I was in the England squad.

I've always got that determination, to get back in the squad and get back playing.

I want to play more minutes. I'm a player who doesn't want to stay on the bench or not in the squad.

I've shown I am deserving to be in the England squad, but I don't just want a place in the squad; I want to be in the team.