Quotes about Ambition

Not everybody is going to agree with your dream. I'm sure you've had border bullies in your life as you moved into your career. And what we don't want to do is focus upon them.

Just follow your dreams and be patient.

It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

From my youth, I'd never stopped thinking in the future tense.

I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay, and I don't ever want to finish second again. There is a second place bowl game, but it is a game for losers played by losers. It is and always has been an American zeal to be first in anything we do, and to win, and to win, and to win.

When I was in Class II, we used to walk about 5 km. to school. I did not know of Olympics or even athletics then. One day, a friend went in a car and left me behind. I was so angry, I wanted to run and outrace the car. I ran so fast that I tripped and fractured my knee.

I cannot control what people think. But I can control myself and my aim, and my head is focused on trying to win trophies.

It is about winning a trophy. It doesn't make any difference to me who lifts it; I would just rather win.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

Believing that you can achieve (and deserve) all that you want in your life is a critical step to your success. Don't waste your life believing you can't.

Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers - dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they want to be painters.

I'm not a Republican because I grew up rich, but because I didn't want to spend the rest of my life poor, waiting for the government to rescue me.