Quotes About Ambition

When I was younger I wanted to be a gymnast, but they have to be quite short - I was tall.

I played softball and basketball growing up. I really wanted to play football but both parents said no. I was mad for a second, then got over it. Now, just because I'm tall doesn't mean I can play basketball. I was waaaaay better at swinging a bat.

I decided to take a stab at acting. I entered the American Academy of Dramatic Art, where one teacher told me I'd never make it - I was too tall.

If a great role comes along, and you are too tall to play it, then I think the role is too small for your talents.

I actually hated dancing. My mum used to have to bribe me to go by buying me things. A year before I stopped going, I was going to go for an audition with the Royal Ballet. It turned out I was a year too young. Because I was tall, they thought I was older. But before I had the chance to go back, I quit.

I always wanted to be a teacher or wanted to do something with food. But modeling, I just never thought I could do it myself, really, ever. I still have trouble calling myself a model. I just never thought I was tall enough or skinny enough.

I always wanted to be a character when I worked at Disney, but I wasn't short enough for certain characters, and I wasn't tall enough for others.

I was just a lanky kid, just tall.

Baresi was not tall but he was a great player, while Cannavaro was the best defender in the world - hopefully I will be the same.

If you ask a kid what their dreams are, they will give you a list that is as long as I am tall. Once you get older that list gets shorter and shorter, so dreams shrink. I think dreams should grow as you get older.

I really didn't have aspirations. I was just tall.

It doesn't matter how tall you are if you have heart and you're a competitor.

I'd like to get around 7-7, be as tall as Manute Bol, and someday block his shot.

It's not everything to be tall.

I want my models to be bigger, stronger and taller than common mortals. I need superwomen and supermen.

Bollywood is neither an industry nor a corporate house. It's a jungle of ambition where every one wants to grow taller than the other.

I was the first man to climb the world's 14 tallest peaks without supplementary oxygen, but I never asked how high I would go, just how I would do it.

Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building.

Michael Owen isn't the tallest of lads, but his height more than makes up for that.

You don't have to be the biggest, tallest, strongest guy to do whatever you want to do. You can do anything. There's tall doctors, short doctors. It doesn't matter. You don't have to be the tallest guy to play the sport of basketball, football or whatever you want to play.

As a competitor, you want the biggest, tallest challenge you can possibly ask for.

I was 16 years old and wanted to help my mom with the rent. There was a restaurant called China Buffet in Tampa that hung a 'Help Wanted' sign outside, so I went in and ended up hosting every Friday and Sunday for $6 or $7 an hour.

We've brought championships to Tampa and we've had successes elsewhere. But one thing that drives us day in and day out is we have one Super Bowl ring but we've got many more fingers.

It is a good motive, fame and money, as it is tangible and measurable. Being an artist is neither measurable nor tangible and certainly not a way to become rich.