"My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons"

"Ambition is not a vice of little people"

"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book"

"Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked"

"Ambition is the last refuge of the failure"

"The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend"

"An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition"

"Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds"

"That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty"

"All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition"

"Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today"