Quotes About Ambition

It's like an addiction: you win one medal and you want to win more.

I won the league at Middlesbrough with Manchester United, and I wore my medal for the next two or three days because I thought, 'I want this again - and the best want it again and again'.

I would be so proud to finish my career with a European medal.

I think that I am a serious threat to anybody out there who is trying to get that medal.

I want to win medals for myself.

I've been lucky: I've won a lot of medals, but I'd still like to win more.

I don't think you sit there as a young boy thinking you want a full set of medals, you just want to achieve something.

I am not running after gold medals; I am running after time. And once I get that, gold medals will run after me.

You don't set off in life to be mediocre. At least, I don't.

I don't think anybody's goal is to be mediocre. I think everybody should want to be the best. I've always felt that way. I want to be at the best at everything I do.

My biggest fear as an actor is being involved in something mediocre, or being mediocre myself.

The biggest fear in my life is being mediocre.

I'm not here to be mediocre.

I don't think anybody wants to be mediocre.

I don't play to be mediocre.

I'm not in the UFC to be mediocre.

We train to be the best. We don't train to be mediocre.

I never wanted to be mediocre at anything.

I don't want to be a mediocre player or average.

Mediocrity never goes away - but neither, I hope, do those who are willing to challenge it.

Everything about mediocrity kills me.

Anchoring is a different medium. I wanted to try it and not stop working, I didn't want to sit at home and say, 'Will do that one show when it comes along.'

For someone like me, music is all I've ever thought about - playing big shows, and then, when you take something that is based around your music and put it in a completely different medium, it's a really interesting and cool emotion to watch.

Many artists feel resistance on the way up.