Quotes About Ambition

The main thing I wanted was to manage.

Very few women manage to have it all; certainly not all at once.

Ultimately, I want to direct a movie, so that's another thing, too, where I wonder what that will look like and how will I be able to manage.

I wasn't ready to manage straight away. You have a few players who stopped and managed a first team straight away and were successful, and then there are the other ones who take different pathways. And I think what was important for me was to understand what I really wanted to do.

I've never said I didn't want to manage a big team. I've never had that dream - that's different.

I wanted to make films, but the films being made in the 1990s were not my kind. I couldn't break in, and even if I did manage to get a foothold, I didn't know what I would make.

When I was 22 I didn't know how to manage my career or assimilate success.

There's a lot to be said for having a small manageable dream.

I think in management, if you lose the drive to succeed you may as well not be in it.

I would have gone to Loughborough to study business management and was looking forward to that very much.

I was a business management major.

I thought about possibly being in the front office, being on the management side of things like a GM one day.

I went from thinking I could be a manager to thinking I could do something much bigger than that.

I should have just become a manager.

If I had been at any other club but United, then I think I would have gone to the manager and asked to leave. But I want to stay here and win things.

When you are the manager, you want to win.

When you're a young manager and trying to build something, you work very, very hard.

If my ambition was to stay a manager the rest of my life, then I'd probably follow what people think managers are supposed to be like, but my ambition was never to be a manager.

When you are young, you always want to improve, to work with great managers - and Arsene Wenger is one of the best in the world.

I wasn't putting my all into it and I was still managing to score goals, and that gave me something to dream about, and something to work hard for. So I ended up going to the gym on my days off, trying to be a step ahead of everyone. Then we played Luton and I did OK and they came in for me.

When I started, there very few women at the managing director level and very few who had families, which is something that was important to me. So it's not like when I looked up I could say, 'Well, that's who I want to be.'

When I started, there were very few women at the managing director level and very few who had families, which is something that was important to me. So it's not like, when I looked up, I could say, 'Well, that's who I want to be.'

If I want another job, I'll get one. I haven't set a date of when to stop managing.

My first aim is to play well for my club, Manchester City. If I do, I am sure that will come to the attention of the national manager.