Quotes About Ambition

As a player, you always want to win prizes.

You want to win all games, which means you want to win all cups and all prizes.

I want to win Nobel Peace Prizes, as many Grammys as I can, Emmys, Golden Globes, VMAs, everything.

It was always about being first, about winning. There were no prizes for second place. My mother and father said, 'Do whatever you want, as long as you're the best at it.'

I played semi-pro at Chalfont St. Peter but it's so hard to become a pro footballer - I think there's even more competition than acting.

It doesn't really matter who I turn pro with. What matters is where I take my tennis.

I don't play anymore, because I know I'm not going to be a pro golfer. So there's no reason to golf.

Since I was like eight, I always wanted to be playing pro tennis.

I knew I was going to play pro tennis when I was 12.

My goal isn't to be a top junior. It's to be a top pro.

Playing pro baseball has definitely been a goal of mine.

I wanted to go pro, but having the option to go to college was important for me.

I want to make Pro Bowls, do all the great things.

I was told once if I kept breaking things on my legs, that I wasn't going to be able to walk soon, you know? I wanted to be a pro skateboarder, but it was too hard. I was trying, but it wasn't going to happen.

Pro basketball is a very mercenary endeavor.

I thought I would just become a pro at a golf course.

I wanted to be a pro athlete. I knew that.

After I won my first amateur fight, I figured I would do fighting on the side while I was going to school. I got an offer after that amateur fight to take a professional fight. The opponent kind of wanted to have an easy win for her pro debt, and they said they'd pay me $1,500. I was like, 'Yeah, might as well get paid for what I was doing.'

I've been working to be a pro since I was 11 years old.

So kids that have pro potential and want to take a loan so that their families don't have to deal with it, why can't you?

My goal isn't just to make wrestling into a bigger show and make good money, but it's also to evolve pro wrestling to where I think it belongs.

It has always been my dream to make it as a pro.

I played a little pro football, didn't make much money.

Do I get irritated by the no-Pro Bowl thing, never making a Pro Bowl? Yeah, I do.