Quotes About Ambition

It would be nice if you have a hit. But I don't think it's necessary to continue with my career at this point.

When you're five years old, and you're running a business that people did not think there was room for, getting attention is not a bad thing. Letting it be known by whatever colorful language is necessary is not a bad thing.

Starting my own label was more out of necessity. I'm not going to sit around and wait for labels to come screaming.

Well, you know, I've always been an entrepreneur. I've had it out of necessity.

When you are at the top, teams raise their game to play against you, breathing down your neck because they want what you have.

I'm not one of these people who likes to do as little as possible. I really do feel the hot breath of time on the back of my neck these days. And there are certain things I want to do before my time is up.

The 'Sports Illustrated' cover was the last thing I shot. That week, I told my agent, 'You know what, I really... I don't want to be a model anymore. I really want to do movies.' And I think he wanted to wring my neck at the moment.

Confidence is one of those things that no one ever wants to talk about in this industry because confidence and ego run neck and neck. But you have to understand, those are things that you have to have in order to make it to where Edge has made it. You've got to have a certain amount of ego and confidence in yourself to get there.

If I have a roof over my head and if I'm cashing checks and choking some necks I'm always happy.

I don't have a problem with dives out of the ring, but there are a lot of these guys who don't have anything to fall back on, and they're not making any money doing it. A lot of these guys go out there, and they're gonna break their necks at 23 years old doing things they shouldn't be doing.

France has more need of me than I have need of France.

One chance is all you need.

You need a big ego to be an artist.

You need just as much drive to be a good businessman as you do to excel as an athlete.

The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more.

You must, as an entrepreneur - if that's your position - be doing things that really move the needle.

I'll always find the hardest path. Needless to say, not always a good idea.

Nothing is ever enough for me. I'm always thinking what is wrong, what needs to be fixed.

I don't care about having a fancy car. I don't have a lot of the wants and needs that a lot of people have where I would need to make a $1 million a fight.

I got really lucky that at age 12, I knew I just wanted to be a dancing monkey in front of people and entertain them, or try to. It's amazing that at age 12 I realized what a needy life I was gonna have.

I'm not a negative person, but every role I go for I don't think I'll get.

I think what I try to do with all the naysayers, negative comments, or even people that think you can't do it, I'm trying very hard to use it as motivation and to add to that chip on my shoulder.

I knew I wanted to be a writer and I knew if I had a wife and family, I would neglect something, and I was afraid it wouldn't be the writing.

It's the nature of a human that when you get neglected somewhere, you want to go back and prove a point.