Quotes About Ambition

When I was 15 years old, the Duke-UNC game looked like the funnest game in the world to be a part of. So I chose to make sure I was a part of it for four years, and when I was at Duke, it exceeded all my expectations.

It was very important to me that I be my own person. That's why I chose show business.

I chose basketball over film.

I used to be a striker for my school, but my father felt cricket had more scope. I grew up admiring Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly, so I chose cricket.

The opportunity to play for Duke University is great, and that's the reason I chose the school.

I come from a petit bourgeois family, and I've always been drawn to artists and people who choose their own way of life instead of being chosen by the lives that people want for them.

You should want to be the best at whatever your chosen field is.

Growing up, I wanted to be Chris Evert.

When I first started getting into wrestling, the three people I wanted to be like were the three Chrises: Chris Kanyon, Chris Jericho and Chris Benoit.

As long as I loved and served Christ I could be anything I wanted to be.

I worked every day - Christmas Eve, birthdays - trying to become a great basketball player. Everywhere I went, I had a basketball.

I would love to work with Christopher Nolan, 100 percent.

In about five years I had gone from selling cigarettes in the streets of Abidjan to playing for the biggest club in the world.

My dreams kind of came through when I went to see the cinema.

I want to be part of great cinema. That is my only aim.

I still haven't played a leading role in cinema or in TV, and that's something that I long for.

I started out with this dream of being a director and doing cinematography and bought my first film camera at 15.

I majored in sports and went to law school and focused in sports law, so I always knew I wanted to do ESPN but thought it would be behind the camera. After doing 'Bachelor' and 'Bachelorette,' the media circuit, I thought, you know what - I want to talk about it!

I just want kids to know that, no matter what your circumstance is and no matter where you're from, you can always make a way. There's always a way out of or a way in to do something - that thing that you want to do.

I try to associate myself as just being myself - and being a person, an American citizen, going out there every day and just trying to be successful.

I've come to expect more out of myself - as a citizen, as a man, as an athlete - to reach a better place, a place I've never been.

I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.

It's so hard coming out of drama school to claim your right to be taken seriously and even get auditions.

I'm not really interested in being a superhero. That's not a box I've been trying to check off.