Quotes About Ambition

I am a lucky man because when I was young, I wanted to be a footballer. Suddenly, around 30 years old, I thought, 'I want to try to be a manager because it's different.'

I was a street footballer.

My dream was always to be a footballer and help my family.

When you're growing up and thinking about being a footballer, you want to make as many caps and play as many games as you can.

I only ever wanted to be a footballer.

I'm a footballer; I want a football club.

It's impossible to imagine doing anything else because I always had in my head that I would be a footballer.

As a footballer, you still have to dream.

I think having a back-up plan is never a bad thing. I would hate to be a male footballer and look back on 15 years of my career and think, 'Oh well, I've got a lot a money but what now?'

I don't know what I would have done had I not become a footballer. I've always wanted to do that, even when my family would try to stop me playing football so that I went to school.

You know, I was going to be a footballer at one stage, but... nah.

I have always believed in myself. As a footballer, it is essential to have that belief.

I grew up desperate to be a professional footballer and I was willing to do anything to be one.

You want to achieve the most you can in the short period you have in your career as a professional footballer.

My first goal was to become a professional footballer.

Every footballer wants to be in a starting position on the pitch.

As a footballer, I'm never satisfied with where I'm at.

If I had the choice I'd be a boxer or a footballer.

It's why you become a footballer, so you can play against the best in the Champions League.

It was part of my dream when I was a kid to become a footballer, is to have that pressure, to be the man who is going to be there when everything is on the line.

I will not lie, people know I'm a footballer and I had to seize the moment with Zenit's financial offer.

Footballers are super-intelligent and there is only one football language: to win, to win, to win.

As a player, you want to win every game. That's what footballers do: they want to play, and they want to win.

Liverpool is no different to any other city in the country for footballers. If you are famous and people know you have money, there will always be someone who wants to make a name for themselves.