Doris Kearns Goodwin Quotes

If you talk to most ambitious people, people who are high achievers, they're rarely at peace with what they're doing because they need an engine to keep moving.

People just don't understand how obsessed I am with winning.

On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.

I don't know what drives me, I don't have a clue, but I'm driven more today than I ever have been.

I live for competition. It makes my life complete.

I'm somebody that has a very big competitive edge and a chip on my shoulder.

I still have the competitive spirit, which is good.

I'm a hypercompetitive individual.

Once I decide to do something, I want to win in the worst way. I will do anything within the law to win.

Ambition has no rest!

I've been competitive from day one. It's in my nature. Whether people recognize that or not, I don't know how they can't. I'm not gonna go out there and try to hurt somebody or win by all means. But if it's up in the air, I'm gonna try harder than you to get it done.

I'm ambitious in everything I do. That is never going to change.

I'm very competitive. If I have to 'turn it on,' I know how to. The switch isn't hard to find, don't worry.

I'm extremely competitive, extremely ambitious, and always looking for ways to improve and move up, to do things better.

People think I play hard. It's just me wanting to be in the NBA and trying to prove every game that I should be here.

Inside me there are two people. One is a very aggressive - I want to win; I won the Premier League, but now I want to win on Saturday. I want to win next season - and is never satisfied.

I love someone with something to prove.

The competitive spirit never dies.

I'm super competitive.

It's how I'm wired. If I'm not the best at something, it ticks me off, and I want to work harder to be the best. It's also the way I was raised.

The only way you're going to make it is to have a hunger for success and a will to win. That's something that's always pushed me.

No matter how much I make or what I get, I still think that I gotta go out there and prove something. That's going to be my mentality and that's my motivation.

If I do something, I do it with the idea to get to the top - without that, I would stop living.

The only thing I can promise is my best and when I bring my best, you're going to have to bring six people to beat me.

Perhaps your challenge isn't finding a better project or a better boss. Perhaps you need to get in touch with what it means to feel passionate. People with passion look for ways to make things happen.