Quotes About Ambition

When you are 28, 29 years old... you are aware that this is going to be your last big contract of your career. You have to make up your mind: What is it that I want? Do I want to find something new, a new culture, a new league, a new language, new teammates, a new city? And what is it that I need to be happy? What is it that I need to perform?

For me, I just set little goals for myself and stay on that kind of track and surround myself with positive people along with my teammates. I just kind of have my goals and my dreams, and this is something that we've all been working for our entire lives, so it is kind of easy to wake up and want to better myself every day towards that goal.

I'm surprised by Cristiano Ronaldo every day because of the ambition he has to win. That infects all his teammates.

I really enjoyed being with my teammates and representing Mexico, but I didn't go where I wanted to go.

I never put a ceiling on myself, I never put a ceiling on my teammates or my team.

I want to be a Hall of Fame quarterback one day. By God, that's not going to be easy. I want it to be hard, hard as hell, just so I can show that I can do it and prove to myself and to my teammates that they believe and trust in me.

There are some big teams out there who don't play in Champions League, but I can't deny that I'd love to play in Europe's most prestigious competition.

but if you get a chance to be the baddest and strongest, always be the baddest and strongest.

Dreams, dreams. I walk them; I live them. I delude myself with them. It's a wonder I can spot reality anymore.

Power," as John Adams had written, "always thinks it has a great soul.

the prime minister's physician concluded that "Monty wants to be a king." Eisenhower came to believe that "Monty is a good man to serve under, a difficult man to serve with, and an impossible man to serve over." That maxim would tidily sum up the Allied high command in Europe.

I want to fight the champ," he said. "If you lose, you've lost to the champ and it's no disgrace. If you win, you're the new champ.

The more stars you have, the higher you climb the flagpole, the more of your ass is exposed

The tasks were too many, the seas too vast, the sails too few.

So many of my dreams were to actually be able to make a living of what I did as a hobby.

If you can't strive for perfection...just strive.

Slater used to be a poet, he's nothing now, and he sort of looks on Robby and me with awe because we aren't nothing yet, we haven't given up yet, awed at me because I'm thirty-one and haven't given up yet, and at Robby because he's young and has potential. Most people stop wanting to be a writer around the age of sixteen.

You can dream on welfare. You can hope as you take in ironing. It is just less painful if you don't.

Sam believes in taking life in his two hands and squeezing and pounding it until it gives you something, even if it's just a little bit. But the important thing is to keep squeezing, keep pounding, keep working.

You don't get a free lunch until you can afford to buy the restaurant

America allows us to be able to dream, then gives us the ability to achieve those dreams.

They campaigned on contempt for the body they sought to join.

I hope I am the Tim Tebow of the Iowa caucuses.

Dreamers are not content with being mediocre.