Quotes About Ambition

Before 2 Chainz got big, he used to sleep on my couch.

There had to be something more important than me being comfortable, me being OK, and me being that one person that made it from Stockton. That's why I decided to run for city council in 2012.

I was brought up on a council estate. I know what it's like to be poor.

The thing is with boxers we don't come from Cambridge and places like that, we come from council estates. So in boxing it's very, very hard.

It doesn't seem very long ago I was a girl from a council estate with nothing but dreams.

I went to my school careers counselors and said I wanted to be an actor, and they didn't know what to do. They showed me catalogues with pretty campuses and said, 'Oh, look, there's a theater building. Why don't you go there?'

I'm constantly thinking about what I'll do next. I never count on music being a career of longevity. I mean, longevity is key, and I hope that it lasts, but you just don't know, because it's not in your hands, you don't make the decision.

My dream when I was younger was always to be a Benfica player. So when I arrived on the first team to work with a coach that didn't count on me, who put me as a left back, of course I was a bit sad.

My whole life I've worked. My whole life I've been counted out.

Why am I working so hard? Going for 400 books, perhaps, but who's really counting?

I always loved math in high school and I thought that I would be an accountant. But I also thought I would be better at counting money in the NFL.

I expect to make a career out of country music.

I've always wanted to sing country music.

If I wasn't singing country music for a living, I was actually going to school to be a doctor.

I've never known a day of my life that I didn't want to sing country music. I really did always know that it was my destiny.

I don't remember ever not wanting to be a country singer. Even as a little kid, that was my dream.

I have always wanted to be a country singer.

At the end, if you are good in your film and you have more films coming your way and good characters to play, nothing else counts.

You keep getting calls, but then doing the right project and being sure of what you want to do is what counts.

If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.

I do not want to be sheriff of Hillsborough County, seriously.

I would have enjoyed playing some county cricket and learning my art that way, but I never had any ambitions at all to play for England, that's for sure.

It's OK to be a good county cricketer but when you take the step up, you never know how your career might go.

I've done it a couple times where I've had fight of the year. It's not what you aspire to.