Quotes About Ambition

I wasn't really interested in girls. Only football. I was just enjoying football all the time. There was a five-a-side next to the flat, and I used to play there all the time. It was all about football. I wanted to be a professional. That was my goal. I didn't want to be anything other than a footballer.

For a long time, I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was desperate to find something that fit me and I just decided that if I could organically make a professional living out of the things that interested me, then I would be a happy person.

I try and tell all the kids that I meet that hope to be amazing one day and be a professional athlete or a doctor or a lawyer or whatever they want to be. I tell them they can do all that because Tourette's won't stop them.

As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer.

First of all, I really never imagined myself being a professional athlete.

You get older, and you want to be a professional athlete; you want to win on the biggest stage.

Ever since I was a little boy, I had my eyes set on being able to say I was a professional athlete. I worked hard every day to make sure that it became a possibility and sacrificed a lot for the game of football.

I worked my whole life and dreamed my whole life of being a professional athlete.

My dream was always to be a professional athlete.

I know I have a big future in front of me, so that's my main focus. So when I'm outside of the ring, I try to carry myself as a professional athlete, not just anybody.

I've always dreamed of being a professional athlete.

I think every young man's goal is to be a professional athlete, whether it's the NBA, MLB, or the NFL.

I always wanted to be a professional athlete and really did not necessarily care which sport.

Playing professional football is something I'll never be able to do.

When I first got to college, in my mind, I was going to end up playing professional football. When I tell people this story, they always end up laughing, and I chuckle about it at my own expense. I was a big fan of American football; I played in high school, and I ended up earning the opportunity to play in college.

I was just a kid who had arrived in the world of professional football and thought he could do anything he wanted. But I have learned from my mistakes. I have done everything to change, both on and off the pitch.

I'd like to run a professional football team. I'd love to run the USTA, be the sports editor of the 'New York Times.'

Since I was in high school, I wanted to play professional football and professional baseball, be a two-sport star.

I always told my dad I'd play professional football.

I would try to be a striker even though I wasn't and once I started growing up and seeing professional football was a step closer I would look at Sergio Ramos. I always looked up to Ramos as an example and watched him a lot.

I always watched professional football and my father played at an amateur level, but I didn't think I wanted to become a pro.

I was a young boy from Western Australia with a dream to play professional football.

Everything has changed in my professional life; I get to live every dream - and more - that I ever wanted as a little girl, and as a teenager.

When I first started doing stand-up back in Philadelphia, the idea of being a professional writer was completely beyond me. It didn't even occur to me that that was something you could do.