Quotes About Ambition

I always wanted to be a footballer; I always wanted to play. I was born to be a footballer.

If you're not an ambitious footballer, you're in the wrong game, really.

I'm a footballer through and through. It's all I've ever wanted to be.

I want to be a footballer. I don't want to do anything else.

When I started, when I was eight, I never thought I would make a career out of being a woman footballer.

People at school used to assume I was going to be a footballer, and it wasn't until I got to 16, when I was at Southampton, that I had a doubt for the first time in my life. Southampton said I wasn't big enough, but it was just because I hadn't grown. Simple as that.

When I dreamt of being a footballer I dreamt of being a forward, but I wasn't talented enough.

The teacher would say, 'Not everybody makes it as a footballer, so what do you want to be?' I'd say, 'A footballer.' The teacher would say, 'But not everybody makes it. So what do you want to be?' I'd say, 'A footballer.' Every year that happened! Nothing was going to get in the way of me being a footballer.

I was extremely competitive, so for me becoming a footballer was not necessarily because it was about being the best - it was about winning.

I've always dreamt of being a footballer. You only get one shot at a career like this, and I want to be the best professional I can. Anything I can do that means I can get the best out of my ability is what I'll try and do.

I've always wanted to be a top footballer since I was young.

I want to be a footballer - and that means playing on a Saturday afternoon.

I didn't think I was going to make it as a footballer.

If I'd had the choice when I was 14, and someone had said to me, 'You can either be a footballer or an actor,' I'd have said: 'Well, can't I be a footballing actor?'

I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day? I couldn't think of anything worse.

I was always determined to make it as a footballer, but if things hadn't worked out, I'd have maybe followed my dad into the building industry.

Ever since I was six or seven, I wanted to be a professional footballer.

I grew up in a place where there weren't many opportunities if you didn't become a footballer.

As a footballer, you always want to win.

When my career is over, I want to say to myself that I've done whatever I could to be the best footballer I could be.

I thought I was going to be a footballer or a boxer or something like that - I was into sports.

I was determined to become a footballer, not only because I loved the game but so I could provide for my family.

There are times in the career of every young English footballer when they simply need to take their chance to establish themselves.

I remember watching a 'Big Brother' contestant saying that she wanted to be a footballer's wife. I thought, 'What is the world coming to?'