Quotes About Ambition

I wasn't interested in sport or anything obvious, so I didn't stand out. I was interested in music, but I couldn't read music, so I wasn't allowed to do the GCSE. I was interested in painting, but no one's interested in a 16-year-old boy who's interested in painting. I wanted to get out of school very, very quickly.

I could have begged. They made it obvious to me that if I wanted to come back and be a good boy... but I'd rather be in Roots than Good Times.

It's obvious we can't all be a Gully Foyle, but most of us energize at such a low level, so far short of our real capabilities, we could all be more, do more.

I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me.

I give everything to my work, and I like complex roles, characters that aren't obvious. I've been very lucky so far, and I'm dreaming of working with directors like Jane Campion, Susanne Bier and the Dardennes. But the gods will decide.

I didn't know if I could have a career in fashion; I didn't fit in an obvious box.

At age 12, it was obvious. I had to go to Space Camp.

It was kind of obvious to everyone around me that I wasn't going to stay in the town I grew up in - I knew I had a dream of becoming something else.

I obviously work really hard. But I also have the capacity to dream really big and have the discipline to materialize those dreams.

I just always expect the best because I'm a competitor and if I'm competing, then obviously I'm trying to be better in everything.

Obviously I want to win something important, this game is important to me.

Obviously, I did a couple of things right on the old casting couch.

You see the likes of the Barcelonas and Real Madrids, and you always want to play against them and, obviously, Bayern Munich too.

Obviously, there's times in your career when people doubt you.

If you've got aspirations to be a manager or coach, obviously coaching your country would be a great honour.

I'm never really just satisfied with where I'm at. I always just want to get better, improve more, learn as much as I can because obviously I have a lot to learn and a lot to get better at so it's all about improvement to me.

When you're an undrafted guy, it's hard because... you're not going to have the first- or second-team reps all the time, obviously.

I obviously love to run the ball.

Obviously, being a forward, I would like to score more goals. But while the team does well, there is no problem.

Obviously, I'd love to play for my country.

Obviously, I couldn't imagine that my career would go so well. When I first started, I wanted to play out of goal. But there was no goalkeeper, and the coach put me in goal.

I can't do everything obviously although sometimes I know that all of us wish that we could.

I'm the type of person that rises to the occasion, and when work is in front of me, I do work.

I always rise to the occasion for that big bet.