Quotes About Ambition

I was doing catalog work for a while at 14 and eventually, it was one of those days I was just moving around New York City and I got stopped by an MTV scout and I ended up doing a Jennifer Lopez look-a-like contest and I won that.

If I'm writing books, I'm a 'New York Times' bestseller - how do I do it all? I don't know.

I got my start in the 'New York Times' because I used to read Stuart Elliot, the advertising columns. I still do. And I read him so religiously, I wanted to work for him before I died.

I never set out to do this - getting to No. 1 in the 'New York Times' bestseller list wasn't even a pipedream.

When you've written 10 books and have six on the New York Times best-seller list - and four have been No. 1 - I think you have a right to be a member of Congress.

New Yorkers are obsessed with youth and eternal youth and then their careers and making money.

I was a medium-level juvenile delinquent from Newark who always dreamed about doing a movie.

What good was being the king of the rackets in Newark, N.J., if you couldn't have DiMaggio at your dinner table?

We were one of the hottest bands in Jersey, but I was burning up because I knew I'd never be a star in Newark. I knew the action was in Nashville and that's where I wanted to be.

I'm a Newcastle lad, so to be manager is every Geordie's dream.

I think how football works, the way you have to look at football, that is the difference between Leicester and Newcastle. There is big motivation here to keep growing and to get better here at Leicester. I didn't feel they had it at Newcastle.

With Newcastle there are 50,000 people watching and they want it to be a success, and that is what I am all about.

Things could be done better over there at Newcastle, but Leicester have given me the opportunity to do great things hopefully.

I wanted to help Newcastle, I wanted to make it better. I do not seem to have had that effect.

The reason I joined Newcastle was because I could see we could do great things.

I've always wanted to play for Newcastle, and I've only had a little taste of that, so for me, it's about getting fit as soon as I can and getting back on the pitch for Newcastle and making more memories of the future.

Coming to manage Newcastle was never going to be easy. But there was never a side to me that thought, 'Oh no, I do not want that.'

If you're not competitive, if you're not out to make a mark, you shouldn't be in the news business.

When I was a kid, I could draw, and my ambition was to be a cartoonist. I wanted to draw comics. But I also liked newspaper comics.

Everybody I meet is a star. In Bombay it is crazy and even TV has become so big that there are just too many stars and there is too much greed for that little space on the newspaper.

When I graduated from college, I tried my hardest to get a job at an accounting firm, and it just wasn't meant to be. I ended up delivering pizzas and newspapers. I knew my life was cracked up to be a little more.

Seeing my name in the newspapers after winning the national junior championship motivated me to win more medals and I have never looked back since then.

I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.

I want to be the next legend.