Travis Barker Quotes

Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don't, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

When I finally got there, to where I thought was the top, I wasn't doing what I was doing in the beginning. I was not happy.

When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.

I knew I wanted to play 'Dr Cox' really bad, which is always a huge mistake because as soon as you want something really bad, maybe you rip up a little bit.

I could have had class. I could have been a contender.

Don't keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason.

I intended to be famous by the time I was 16 and rich by the time I was 20. Curiously, it didn't pan out!

I wanted to be a serious actress, but of course that didn't really happen.

I've been telling people 'I'm going to go to California, and I'm going to be a big star' since the womb, but lately it was immediately followed by, 'Would you like soup or salad with that?'

The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart.

You never forget the feeling of not getting to the World Series. Yes, it sticks with you.

I always wanted to play in the Super Bowl. That never happened. It hurts. I'm not going to lie about it. It's reality. You deal with it.

Before I broke my back, I was really looking forward to playing hockey at the University of Michigan. That was my biggest goal.

I'd been trying to do this since I was 15, sending out the demo tapes and doing all the things that everyone told me that I should be doing. But no deal - like, never.

Dreams that are planned are called frustration.

I don't like setting goals - I don't like to be disappointed.

She chased after her dream with much desire, but when she got to close to her expectations, well the dream burned up like paper in fire.

Like one who draws the model of a house beyond his power to build it who, half through, gives o'er, and leaves his part-created cost a naked subject to the weeping clouds.

I have an enormous sense of having failed in life.

Christ, seven years of college, down the drain.

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.