Quotes About Ambition

Now I do bowling, golf, and tennis. I want to be a good bowler.

It's true I always try to be as seductive as possible but I wouldn't be here if I couldn't play tennis.

I just wanted to play tennis. I started because I wanted to pick up another sport and then as I was slowly getting better I wanted to see how far I can go but I always wanted to be myself. I wanted to be original. I didn't want to copy anybody's style.

I chose to stay with tennis and they didn't understand that at the school.

In tennis it's easy to get greedy - and one Grand Slam doesn't feel enough any more.

With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.

There's a lot of things I want to do. I want to learn Italian. I want to learn to play tennis better. I want to motivate the world, basically.

With tennis, no one's going to give it to you. You have to be determined.

Like many entrepreneurs, I started out in sales. I began at 14, when I got a job selling shoes and tennis rackets at a pro shop, and I've been selling one thing or another ever since.

I spent about five years stuck in a room between the ages of 16 and 20 while I wrote the first book, which came out when I was 21. I should have been out playing tennis.

You have to be realistic. I'd love to be more famous, have lots of people supporting me, people knowing my name, but I need a tennis racket or a golf club or to play football. Being a female, I don't stand a chance.

I've been very focused on my career outside of tennis.

Tennis is what I've always wanted to do, so it is my dream to be on top.

I just want to be able to show who I really am, what I can do, bring awareness, create something because I want to take tennis, women's tennis, into an even more exciting path because I believe we have a lot more things to offer.

I played tennis when I was younger. I don't know if I could have been a professional, but I am still passionate about it.

Even as a kid, I'd kick a tennis ball against a wall with both feet for hours. That was one way to become two-footed.

Tennis is a great platform for me to do well, and for sure, I want to be No 1, to win Slams, but there are more things that I want to do.

The biggest problem I see with early-stage entrepreneurs is they get the idea in their head, and they leave it in their head. And they begin embellishing it in their head, making it more ornate. They add on the second story to their dream house - then add the tennis court and the turrets and the gargoyles.

Nick Kyrgios, if you don't want to be a professional tennis player, do something else.

When I told people that I wanted to grow up to be a tennis player, they laughed at me. My dad has always been supportive, but he was laughing, too.

I actually wanted to be a tennis player.

My mother said I would have more chances to become a tennis player than a football player.

That top 100 is a big barrier that every tennis player strives to break into.

Have I ever pretended to be something? I think back in college I think I might have told a girl that I was a professional tennis player once. And then, of course, she had never heard of me so I had to dig deeper. 'I'm just sort of on the playing satellites. You know, I'm kind of working my way up. I'm not ranked in the top 100 or anything.'