Quotes About Ambition

I think there are a lot of good players in the top 20, top 30 that are top-10 players. You got to get there. You got to earn it.

You've got to earn way to a title shot.

It's a business and it's a short career. You need to get in, earn as much money as possible. Get out.

I always wanted to train and when I got in the business, I never thought about the money I might earn.

I know what I can earn, I know what I can do.

Yes, I love good clothes, good shoes, but I earned it.

I've earned everything I have; that's the attitude.

What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

I have no ambitions beyond being comfortable in what I do for a living - and earning a living.

Most bands that don't want to become big at all, they don't play. If you don't want to be known, if you don't want to make it, don't play. That's the easiest way not to do it.

You never really want anything you can easily have.

I'm very easy-going off court, but I really want to win once I'm walking on to the court.

Growing up, I dreamt of being economically independent because I always believed women should be so.

Being working class, my parents thought, 'Ian's going to uni, the first in the family,' and I'd do dentistry or accountancy. I was going to do accountancy; then I got a C in Economics and thought, 'Why am I doing this?' The only thing I was interested in was books and literature.

I think you've got to watch out for anybody in high school who says he wants to become an economist.

You can't have Alan Partridge as Eddie the Eagle!

That's how I choose to approach my career. I'm constantly trying to find an edge and find the next way to improve myself.

In The States I would have no edge, no advantage at all.

To get to the top, you must have an edge to your game, like Ramos does.

A competitive edge has helped me through my career.

I don't want to sit by the edge, like some other guys who have played their game. Earned money, have nice lifestyles, and don't say anything.

I have a little bit more of an edge to me.

I had always wanted to do comedy, but didn't know where to start - all I knew was that Edinburgh was where it happened.

Going to Edinburgh when I was at university and seeing people who were my age just getting up and doing what they wanted to do, was quite a clincher for me.