Quotes About Ambition

Just like footballers want to play at Wembley, the Nou Camp and the Bernabeu, boxers have their dream arenas too.

In America, I think most actors wish they were rock stars, but I think in England most people wish they were footballers.

I would just laugh and say, 'My dad was one of the greatest players, and I want to follow in his footsteps.' But I also want to make a name for myself. I want to be Timothy Weah, be myself, play my game, and still follow in his footsteps while I'm doing that.

I get a lot of letters from people saying, 'I want to follow in your footsteps,' and I don't know how to tell people how to follow in my footsteps, because I can't give them the opportunities that I had.

When I dream, I don't just dream for myself. As long as you have that love and these dreams that you want to reach for the people you love dearly, you stay inspired.

Defeat is forbidden.

You might as well go through life the way you want to. If what you want is to be engaged and forceful, to 'lean in,' well, do that.

It seems like everybody is forcing me to run for president.

I know what my goals are, and I always keep that in the forefront of my mind.

I was gonna try to go to grad school to teach foreign language.

My first band, we wanted to be like Foreigner and Journey.

Competitions are a business, first and foremost.

That's how I want to be with stuff: I always want to be in country music, first and foremost, forever.

First and foremost, I want to be the champ.

I define myself first and foremost as I've had a fairly successful career.

I didn't want to do a lawyer. I didn't want to do forensics. I didn't want to work in an ER.

Football is my passion, and who knows where I will play in the future - you cannot foresee that.

My path has been, I think, a path a lot of women can foresee themselves taking.

If we're going to go really deep, we're all trying to live forever. My music is my way of doing that.

I've been acting since I was five, and I hope it's something I can do forever. I love it.

I don't want to get beat - in life, in anything. I'm a very prideful person. My will to win has been with me forever.

Life doesn't go on forever, and you don't want to drop dead without ever having done what you wanted to do.

I was getting a lot of pressure to go to the States, but I never really wanted to. I saw Cronenberg forge his own path, and that made me believe that I could do that, too.

When I was 13, I forged my date of birth so that I could get a Saturday job at Woolworth's, earning £1 3s 6d for the day. But my real ambition was to do something in the music world - or, at least, close to it.