Quotes About Ambition

You don't want to do sevens just for the sake of going to the Olympics. its something you've got to want to do.

If you want a lot of endorsements then you'd pick the Olympics. But I've had a passion for the Tour since I was a kid. Let's put it this way: it would be harder to win a stage on the Tour de France so that would mean more. I'd take the Tour win first - but I'm aiming for both.

If it doesn't mean more to a normal human being like Dan Evans, who could change his life and career by winning not a gold but a bronze medal for Great Britain, if he doesn't want to take that chance, I would say something is wrong with the Olympics in what it's worth in tennis.

For me, 'Cool Runnings' was amazing because I always wanted to bobsled and go to the Olympics.

I've done everything - All-Stars, Olympics. The only thing I haven't done is win MVP of the league. There's nothing else I haven't accomplished.

I want to be able to do the Olympics and then do the Paralympics after.

From the time I started boxing, my dream was to win an Olympic gold medal. At 10, I can't say I knew how big the Olympics are. I just knew that every kid in the gym wanted to win an Olympic gold medal. Every kid in every gym probably wants to win an Olympic gold medal.

We wanted to be World Champions before going to the Olympics.

Everyone wants to represent their country and my dream is to one day play in the Olympics.

That's just the mystery in the air of the Olympics. It's full of dreams, and sometimes dreams don't come true.

I tried out for the London Olympics, missed it by a little bit, gave it away for a while, and wasn't sure I wanted to wait for another four years.

I saw my baseball career skyrocketing, but there was always something in the back of my head that was missing. That was trying to make it to the Olympics.

If the cards just so happen to be drawn that I get called up to the big leagues and become ineligible to go to the Olympics, then so be it.

As a child, I always had a dream to make it to the Olympics.

Balzac's ambition was to be omnipotent. He would be Michelangelesque, and that by sheer force of minuteness. He exaggerated scientifically, and made things gigantic by a microscopic fulness of detail.

Growing up, your whole goal and dream is to make the NHL. Once you get there, you kind of have to expand your goals on and off the ice. It took a little bit of time for me to do that, but again, with age and maturity you understand what you want more and how to achieve those things.

When you put everything you have into making music, both on and off the stage, it can be very frustrating when the music you work so hard to create is not allowed to see the light of day.

I played a bahu for six years on-screen. I really wanted to come out of that.

Every champion was once a challenger.

I'd want to be born once more as myself, but more talented.

Once you achieve something you just want to move on and achieve something else and keep achieving, like Alexander the Great - he captured one country and then he just kept doing it.

I'd love the job of Chancellor one day.

Well, I'll keep on auditioning and one day maybe I'll go to LA and try out for films there.

I always assume that one day someone will come and try to do better so you always have to go beyond your limits.