Quotes About Ambition

I didn't know I was good enough to be a pro growing up.

I think when I moved to the United States and saw how serious basketball was and how good I was compared to everyone else. You just came from Canada and you're top five in the country; you're young and everyone says you can be a pro. That's when I started thinking: if I work hard, the dream can come true.

To be quite honest, and anybody will tell you, growing up I was going to be a pro athlete. I didn't have any option. That was my way out.

You get drafted, you perform like a Pro Bowler, then they pay you. But there's certain teams in this league, that's not what they're trying to do.

Ever since I was at Blackburn, when you talk about getting pro contracts I was never the guy that was talked about as, 'This guy is going to be the best player, the next best thing.'

I was 18, I wanted to be a first-year pro.

Ultimately, I decided to go pro because that is what makes the most amount of sense for me.

Going pro out of high school maybe won't work for everybody, but I know that wherever my career goes I'm happy with the choice I made.

I always wanted to be a pro athlete. When I was younger I wanted to be the first person to be a pro at three different sports, but then realized how impossible that is. At 15 I stopped playing other sports and focused on tennis.

Every pro has to decide what they want from their ball.

I didn't start out planning to be Mr. Olympia I just wanted to be the best that I could be, but my goals changed as I went along. I wanted to be the British champion, and then I wanted to be a pro, then Mr. Olympia.

This is somewhere I want to be for now on, being in the Pro Bowl and being an All-Pro player.

I want to score goals. Everyone says that's the only part of my game that's missing. Before I was a pro I used to score goals for fun. I want to bring that back into my game.

If I'm being totally honest, I'd pretty much given up on turning pro. I don't think I'd totally given up on the dream, but I'd accepted that it probably wasn't going to happen.

Now as I got older, it wasn't just that I want to be a pro in two sports, I want to be successful at the professional level in two sports. Obviously, I'm still working to attain that. Especially in basketball.

I always told my mother when I was growing up that I was going to go pro in something, and it came true. All the hard work paid off for me.

After college I was like, Oh, I want to play pro,' but I didn't know exactly what that meant.

I was only picking up short-term contracts in the lower leagues. I thought that rather than the game kick me out, I'd be proactive about it.

The probability of failure doesn't matter to me.

Frankly, I've had the opportunity to get certain accolades, make it to the conference finals, get awards, all this other stuff that doesn't matter. I'm looking only on championship probability. I just feel like I haven't accomplished much unless I can somehow get that done.

I am not from a film family or a Mumbai girl. The probability of getting a second chance is low, and so one has to be more careful.

You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

I had popcorn all over the place, so I decided I might as well be in the Processing Business.