Quotes About Ambition

When I left Stockton and went to Stanford, I felt I hit the lotto. I did not think I was coming back.

I can remember in second grade coming back from school and telling my mom, 'You know what, before I play in the NBA, I want to go to Stanford.' Because of her, I had everything figured out.

I had a lot of college debt. It's very difficult to go to a university that is as expensive as Stanford and then blindly follow your passions when they don't immediately make money out of the gate.

Hoover himself had risen from the most modest means of any president since Abraham Lincoln. Orphaned as a small boy, he worked his way through Stanford's 'pioneer' class - the first freshmen at Stanford. He started his mining career in hard labor.

I started acting in junior high. I was in 'Guys and Dolls.' I was Stanley Kowalski. In my head, before coming to Hollywood, I thought, 'I can play anything.'

I played to the best of my ability. Played to win and was fortunate enough to have won a Stanley Cup and a couple gold medals and played on some really good teams... I'm not going to look back and say I wish I could have done this or that.

I've never been short of putting high expectations on myself; I've never been short of saying I want to win a Stanley Cup.

I want the opportunity to play for a Stanley Cup, but I want to be able continue living life normally.

You want to be the guy to carry the Stanley Cup around and leave the game on a high note. As we all know that rarely happens.

If you are not playing for the Stanley Cup at the end of the year, what's the point? If you don't win, you may as well not make the playoffs, because you are loser just like everyone else.

I want a Stanley Cup.

I'm Anna May Wong. I come from old Hong Kong. But now I'm a Hollywood star.

In my next life, I'm going to be a rock star. I was a ballerina in my last life.

When I was a kid, I loved Elvis, and Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones. But I had no connection to Hollywood - and being a movie star was such a far-fetched idea, growing up in Hawaii.

I'm a rock star because I couldn't be a soccer star.

I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.

I wanted to be Jon Bon Jovi and Bono. But I'm not that cool. I don't need to be. I'm not a rock star. I am who I am.

I'm preparing myself to be a great, great fighter and also a big star in the sport.

In my mind, I was never going to have the things I wanted if I played music for a living, unless I became a rock star.

Every comic is really a frustrated rock star.

I didn't come to Hollywood to be the girl next door. I came to be a movie star.

My father is a big fan of Amitabh Bachchan and always wanted to work or star in a remake of any of his film. But he didn't get the opportunity.

I'd rather be a shooting star than a fading star.

Every actor I know pretty much wants to be a rock n' roll star, and we'd all give it up to be in a rock n' roll band, but we're never going to do that. But being in cartoons - that's as close as you get without being an action figure.