Darcey Bussell Quotes

If you don't have that ambition you start to be sloppy and that is not what I like to be.

I'm not afraid of working hard at anything, whatever it is. I just always want to be the best that I can.

I have always been guided by striving to show the best that I could. That is what kept me going in tennis and it is the same now.

I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well.

I push for what I think can be the best, and if I feel they're not going for the best, it kills me.

I have a singular focus, I'm a perfectionist, and I always want to prove I am the best and the best version of myself.

'Intensity' is a good word. It's like ambition, if it's not ambition at expense of someone else.

You can become obsessive, but you enjoy it - that's what you like doing. It is just how I am. I don't try my hardest to be like this.

I just push myself to work hard.

I'm a great believer in setting myself goals, and I like to think that, once I've a goal to aim for, I'll do whatever it takes to achieve it.

I'm very critical of myself and I know the levels I want to achieve so I'm very hard on myself. So the staff and players are very hard on me as well, which is what I want as I want to get to as high a level as possible.

I'm the type of person that always strives to be great.

That's the competitive nature in me. Just wanting to be the best and wanting to do everything I have to in order for this team to make it that far. You put pressure on your shoulders.

Ambition is important. Of course you can't get anywhere without talent, but there are a lot of talented people. To succeed, you have to be the most ambitious talented person.

When I was 16 or 17, when I started, I never even considered not doing a project. I just wanted to work.

I'm not one of those people who thinks they simply deserve success. I have the drive to work.

I always knew I had to work hard.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

I was always fiercely determined and driven to succeed.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.

I've always surrounded myself with people who are driven. You can be gorgeous, but if you don't want to work for it, nothing is not going to happen.

I always believe someone somewhere is working harder than me and that motivates me to work harder, give 100%.

The biggest thing for me is the passion that I've always had for hockey. I remember growing up, no matter what I did in life, my parents always told me to try to do my best at it and be my best. I can say going through different things that that passion is the most important part. It's not skills or talent or any of that stuff.

I want to be the best, so whatever comes with that, I'll have to accept.