Quotes About Ambition

If somebody had told me as a kid that I would win 30 stages of the Tour de France I probably wouldn't have imagined it. I probably imagined I could do it - I don't lack confidence - but at the end of the day one Tour de France stage win can make a rider's career.

All the players want to play on the big stages - and I am no exception.

When you are in your initial stages of a career in films, filmmakers say, be happy that you got a chance to work here.

To give up my job as a temp and actually make a living doing comedy, it was staggering.

The musicals that leave us kind of staggering on our feet are the ones that really reach for a lot.

I think I will be able to, in the end, rise above the clouds and climb the stairs to Heaven, and I will look down on my beautiful life.

I started as a writer for magazines, and soon they asked me to illustrate my stories. I started from the bottom of the bottom. And I climbed the stairs, one by one.

If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.

All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

When you play a semi-final, it is impossible to be tired. You know how much is at stake.

This is the year you really put the stake in the ground.

It is my dream to have a controlling stake of Arsenal.

Understand what you want, and want it as badly as you can. Make the stakes for yourself as life-or-death as you can.

I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition.

People have nannies and big cars, and they want to go to Maui for Christmas. When there are those kind of stakes involved, people get ruthless.

Let's be honest, I'm not a guy who is going to grind out $10 entry fantasy matches. If I'm going to compete, I want to play at the highest stakes.

Once I moved to Chelsea I certainly felt the stakes had been raised and the training went to another level with a higher quality of players.

I'm always trying to make movies that are better than the ones that we've made before. We don't always succeed at doing that by any means, but we're always trying to raise the stakes, raise the bar, make the movies better, and that's hard.

For comedy reasons, any place we can have really big egos and very high stakes is a great thing to go for.

The stakes are high in politics.

To make a Frankenstein monster of a complex character like Stalin would have been too simplistic. I wanted to show who he was and, if you like, how he happened.

We all dream about winning the Premier League. We all set our stall out to qualify and we worry about positions afterwards.

I've been reading scripts where they've been doing a lot of singing now, but within the dark, realistic story line. I would love, love, love, love to do that. But not a musical on Broadway, I don't have that kind of energy or stamina.

I envision Hollywood as a race, and some people simply drop off before their turn comes around. It's all about stamina - your ability to get back up and keep going even though everything is pointing at the odds not being in your favor.