Quotes About Ambition

Could we grow faster? Yes. But I don't want to be the biggest. I want to be the best at what I do.

At a certain point, this is a brand. It's got to be bigger than me as one little person. We have a lane - and it's a good lane - and want to drive faster down that lane.

I've always said the one change that would've been nice is if I'd been a bit faster - like fast enough to be able to run past people instead of just being overtaken all the time!

Come back stronger and faster, that's what I plan to do.

I just looked at it like I can make it to the NFL a little faster than if I had went to MLB.

I'm not the biggest dude, and I'm not the fastest dude.

The fastest way to get me to go out and do something is to tell me no way I can do it.

I know I'm not the biggest guy or the fastest guy, but you've got to bring something to the table that someone else is not. I love football too much.

I never thought of breaking a record. The only ambition I had was to become the fastest century maker for India, which I did when I broke Azharuddin's record.

I never counted on playing rugby: I was just another fat kid chasing an egg. It has gone pretty well.

What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.

I wanted to be an architect, fate took me to films. Now that I am into politics, I want to give my best here.

Entering politics is a fate worse than death.

I didn't have any ambition to be president. It was fate. The people found me.

I knew I wanted to work in television because some friends of mine, when I went to high school - their fathers worked for, as a matter of fact, for NBC Sports at the time.

I am not called for good roles in Malayalam films for reasons which I cannot fathom.

I'd have liked to have been another Faulkner, of course.

It's not a fault in football to be ambitious, far from it.

I know that somewhere along the line, if I get things in my favor, I think I can be successful.

Of course, growing up, you listen to your favorite people on the radio and you want to have an album of your own and you want to have number one songs that people know and can sing back to you when you have shows.

I've sacrificed a lot to get to the top, to the world title. I really sacrificed, and I took a lot of chances. I did a lot of favors, I felt like, for the UFC and I don't think it got returned.

I've always loved watching movies and pageants. As I grew up, my dreams turned into goals and I started working towards that direction. I took one step at a time and luckily, things worked out in my favour.

If my favourite director gives me a role that is very sparkly? A very brilliant character? I'll do it.

For me, to be in a place where I'm on the 'favourite' list of top directors I like, that's being number one. There is no other definition to me. It's not money; it's not how many songs you're seen in or how many clothes you're changing in the film.