Alistair Brownlee Quotes

I thought if I could play 10 years in the league, it would be a great career more than I could ever hope for in my wildest dreams.

Oh, I must be ambitious, mustn't I? I'm sure I always have been. I think you can only get away with pretending you're not for so long. After that, it becomes ridiculous.

I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.

When I first moved to L.A., I went walking down the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and I would tell myself, 'One day, I'm going to have my own star.'

I have always believed in going after your dreams.

I always wanted to come into the spotlight. I always had dreams and plans of doing my own thing and creating my own image, so it came a little sooner than I thought it would but this is still something I knew I would be going through and would have to experience.

When I find a role I want to play, I just go after it.

I think the fact that I am living my dream and being really productive and embarking on all my lifelong aspirations is proof enough that if I can do it, anyone can. I try to tell everybody to dream big and go after their dreams.

If you don't have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life.

I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.

Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures.

No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.

I encourage everyone to become their dream. Most young people get sidetracked and never end up doing what they really set out to do.

I don't see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, 'I'ma do that,' and they do it. That's it. There's no scientifical process.

The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and chewed as fast as I could.

From Italy, I'd get calls from cousins and aunts saying, 'I don't think you should act. It's really tough. What are the chances?' This was around the time 'Flashdance' came out, and I was like, 'What about your dreams? I'm a maniac.'

Raise your ambition beyond where you're capable of now. There's nothing about my hometown that said I'd be working with Fortune 50 CEO's, Olympians, at the highest level.

I like to push myself, you know.

If I'd said, 'I'm going to be a director,' it probably wouldn't have happened.

It's not really a big fight to get that time to run. When you want something, then you go get it.

I would dream of going up to the 'New York Times' and asking them if I could please be a copy boy or let me scrub the toilets or something like that. But I couldn't rise to those heights.

Who am I just to give up on track? This is something I've dreamed about since I was 9 years old, being an Olympic champion.

If I got hurt or anything, I was going to need a college degree. Nothing was going to stop me from getting that.

I told myself coming into the league that if I could play for six or seven years, that would have been a great career.

For most of my career, I've known what it's like to be in the audience and to enjoy what I'm seeing but still have the ambition to say, 'I can do that, I know I can do that. And I want to do that, and I can't wait for that to happen.'