Quotes About Ambition

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.

I am not merely a baseball player. I am a black man who has done what he wants, gotten what he wanted, and will continue to get it.

That's what America's all about. Entrepreneurs who can start a business in their basement and have it grow into a global company - that's exactly what we want.

When I was 20 years old and first with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, we had an 88-seat theater in a basement and no money.

I want to walk the bases - I want to do all the actor-y stuff.

I'd love to play in the Big Bash at some stage.

A lot of people bash me, but at the end of the day they don't know how much I have.

I never wanted to go to drama school. I thought that was too many eggs in one basket.

Coming out of college, you never really know how good you are, you've never played for money, you've put all your eggs in one basket and your whole life revolves around it. For a while, I didn't think I was going to be good enough.

I've accomplished everything I tried to accomplish in basketball.

I have feelings, but not when it comes to basketball. I'm here to win. I'm not here to make friends.

I knew I wasn't going to play professional basketball.

I played basketball, and I loved it. But I never thought of it seriously as being a professional.

I want to be in such a basketball city like New York.

I always wanted to be a basketball player.

When people asked me back then what I wanted to be when I grew up, I said a basketball player, and I meant it. But I loved going to the movies.

I always wanted to be a basketball player. Nothing more, nothing less.

I was always a hard working basketball player.

I didn't grow up playing football. I wanted to be a basketball player.

My confidence level is, I think I can be a first-round pick; I think I can be a professional basketball player.

I'm not playing this game just to be a good basketball player. I want to be one of the greatest to ever play.

When I was a kid, I dreamed of using a bat with my own name on it.

Maybe because I didn't have a huge film career right off the bat, I've been able to create something different, which is so important to me. That's myself, my idea of who I am.

Each time I go back to bat, I will want to get more and more runs.