Quotes About Ambition

I never got a chance to participate in one, but I wanted to be in an iron man match. I really just wanted to go in there and I remember pitching a couple of times too, and it wasn't necessarily for an iron man match, but I wanted to just go out there for a full hour and just do a match.

You can be in this league for 10-15 years and not win a championship. My boy, Nelson Agholor, been in the league for three years and got a ring with Philly. That's what we live for and dream for. That's why I think a lot of guys stay in Pittsburgh: because we always compete for championships.

I remember the senior class play I was in. I was also in the musical, although I can't sing at all, but I wanted to be a part of it. Then I was modeling in Pittsburgh, so being in front of the camera was something I enjoyed and benefited from. I made money growing up by modeling locally.

When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I'm out there to win.

I'm not going to sit here and say, 'Pity me; I came from modeling.' It's opened a lot of doors. People will take meetings because they've heard the name before. That's an advantage that I have.

I don't want to look back on my career at some point and say, 'What a pity, I came close a few times, but it was never good enough.'

I feel pity for Mayawati that joined hands even with rival Akhilesh Yadav only in an attempt to stop Narendra Modi.

At 22, I had something I loved to do - make pizza - and something I was good at: running a business.

I have a goal of being the No.1 pizza company in the world.

There is no such thing as second place. Either you're first or you're nothing.

I'd love to say second place is great, but it's not.

I want to show the world that we have the best fighters. Our motto is, 'Death is better than second place.'

I'm just a kid that defied the odds. I'm just a kid that ignored the doubt. I'm just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I'm going to continue to go all the way.

I used to be bound by people who placed limits on what they thought I could do. Through that, I learned that if you want something, you have to be the one to go out and do it. If you don't ask for something, you're not going to get it.

Sometimes you just know what you're placed on this earth to do.

My goal is to keep going and reach as far as possible to beat all odds placed before me.

I don't look at it as, 'Oh, I'm gonna keep making beats, and I'm gonna do that until I die.' But that's how some people look at it - gonna just keep making beats, get placement after placement.

I never really wanted to be an artist. I just really wanted to write songs. But, of course, I can't get placement unless I demo the songs.

There are only two places in the league - first place and no place.

We don't ever want to be complacent, and it's good to look back and see places you can improve. That's a good mentality to have.

Sometimes you've got to break the rules to make money, that's just plain and simple.

If you've got a plan, it's not just like a pipe dream. You have a step-by-step list of things to do to get to your goal.

I like to go full bore into something. If you have a backup plan, then you've already admitted defeat.

Discomfort is very much part of my master plan.