Quotes About Ambition

I've been able to reach from the streets to the suites.

Whether it's in the streets or its a nine-to-five, you can be hustling in many different aspects.

In Chicago, a lot of people don't really got nothing to live for. Everybody can't ball. Everybody can't rap. Nobody is really doing those activities. There's nothing to do but the streets.

When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless.

I used to play football on the streets with my friends and ended up where I am today.

I wasn't really into music. I was into the streets. I was too worried about the streets and how I was going to eat and how I was going to make the streets happen.

Whenever I came up against presidents of other companies, I was always smarter, because I was from the streets.

Chicago is constantly auditioning for the world, determined that one day, on the streets of Barcelona, in Berlin's cabarets, in the coffee shops of Istanbul, people will know and love us in our multidimensional glory, dream of us the way they dream of San Francisco and New York.

I grew up in the streets, but that doesn't mean I'm a bum.

I always liked money, so when I was 15, 16 I went headfirst in the streets.

I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.

I'm very ambitious, despite all the challenges I face in the streets.

Growing up in the streets of Bed-Stuy, it was hard, yo.

I've wanted to be an actor since I was 6 years old. I was literally picked off the streets of Paris... while I was modeling there. I was asked to audition for Oliver Stone's 'Alexander.' I didn't get the part, but that led to commercials and roles in South Africa.

My wife once said that one of her great ambitions was to walk down the streets of Hong Kong with her children. So we all went to Asia on one occasion. Then she said she'd like to walk down the streets of Jerusalem with her children. So we arranged our family finances and all went to Jerusalem.

I work on holidays. I work on birthdays. I work on New Year's. I work. I keep my ears to the streets.

I grew up playing basketball on the streets of New York City, and it was very, very rough, and I started playing in the NBA in the same way.

New York reminds me of what my career was like when I lived here, so when I walk through the streets, I remember when I had ten bucks in my pocket and all I could eat is Chipotle.

I used to get money and hustle and do it in the streets.

When I am in Korea, I can't walk down the streets. But I don't want to be famous or popular; I just want to be a good player.

At the end of the day, I was listening to the big homies and they were saying, 'Yo, man, you got talent, man, stay off the streets.'

I guess that people can't imagine three girls just getting up off the streets and making a career for themselves without someone to help them - which is what we did.

I was always playing on the streets with my friends until I was 15 or 16 and I wanted to do things with my skills that were exciting.

I was not ready fresh out of high school to hit the streets of Nashville.