Quotes About Ambition

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.

I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective.

Everybody wants to be somebody. The thing you have to do is give them confidence they can. You have to give a kid a dream.

Everyone should want to excel in life. You should never take the desire to excel away from the human race.

It was all I lived for, to play baseball.

I love this game, I love this sport, I love this league. Why don't I get my own team? (English Premiership football club)

Effort is a measure of a Man.

I decided I wasn't going to come down. I was going to fly. I was going to stay up in the air forever.

Not only in the creative world but also in the sports world. The most successful achievers in sports are people that are really driven and have that spirit of hunger.

To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.

Certainly we're not satisfied with just winning games. We've been playing some pretty good hockey, but we think we can play much better.

Athletes have a certain stubbornness that carries us through and makes us do things that people say we can't do.

I've always had a determination to perfect whatever I'm doing. If I can't do something, I work on it until I figure it out.

Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day.

It dawned on me with blinding brightness. I realized: I had jumped into another rare kind of stratosphere - one that only a handful of people in every generation are lucky enough to know.

Don't be good, be great. Strive to be exceptional. Picture yourself making a great play. Don't let anyone stop you.

I don't think about goals and records. Competition is what keeps me playing.

To believe in yourself and to follow your dreams... This is success!

Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.

I was between 2 and 3 in the world for two, three years. That's not exactly where I wanted to be.

I always tried to do the best. I knew I couldn't always be the best, but I tried to be.

Winners bring reality up to their vision. Losers bring their vision down to reality.

When you are through trying to improve, you are through.

All I know is, I don't want to stop coaching, and I don't want to stop winning, so we're gonna break the record unless I die.