Quotes About Aspiration

I'd love to grow a pair of discreet wings so I could just fly around a bit and impress people.

As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner's medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it's three-Michelin's stars, there's no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate.

The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.

When I need to push myself, I think of all those nicely polished trophies waiting to be lifted up by the winner - and how that winner might be me.

Sammy Baugh embodied all we aspire to at the Washington Redskins. He was a competitor in everything he did and a winner. He was one of the greatest to ever play the game of football, and one of the greatest the Redskins ever had.

Having 'Oscar winner' on your tombstone is a great thing.

I think every artist wants to have that 'Grammy award winner' tag in front of their name.

I don't have many dreams to fulfil because I've won almost everything, but I was born a winner and want to achieve things with Olympiakos.

My aim is to be a winner.

I look like a winner, I smell like a winner, so why not put it on the big screen?

Americans have a profound longing for heroes - now perhaps more than ever. We need our explorers, our sports icons, our Medal of Freedom winners, our Nobel laureates. We need our Greatest Generation warriors, our 'Sully' Sullenbergers, our Neil Armstrongs. On some level, we still subscribe to the myth of the man in the white hat.

Look at 'American Idol,' which I don't look at. Those winners haven't become household names except for Jennifer Hudson, and she was a reject. You can't aim to be a household name. You just have to be successful.

You want to be winners.

When the Americans see someone like Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg, who made billions thanks to their talent and determination, the first thing they say to themselves is, 'I want to be like him.' This, in many ways, is the engine that drives Western society: The desire to make it like the winners.

I love working with Oscar winners.

There have been contestants on 'The Voice' from past seasons that didn't even win, and I have been so inspired by them. To think that I am now one of those winners? I really, really hope there is a little girl out there that is believing in herself and knows that she can be here.

I want my kids to win. Winners get the corner office, the big house, the hot wife, the whole nine.

I never dreamed when I was competing at The Championships that I would one day be interviewing the winners on Centre Court for the BBC.

Winning isn't everything, but wanting it is.

Believe it or not, cricket was my first love. I would genuinely have swapped the dream of a winning goal at Wembley for a century against the Australians at Lord's.

Ever since I was a kid, I've dreamt about winning the Brazilian league, and I still dream about it now. I am doing everything I possibly can to make my dream come true.

In the long run, there are people who've made more money or had bigger stardom at points. But, I think I'll have come out winning.

I never thought of becoming an actress, but I always dreamt of winning a beauty pageant, and I achieved that.

The ability to manage large assets well - it's like being Michael Jordan or winning the gold in the Olympics; it's what you aspire to.