Pursuit of Glory Quotes

'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

The goal is to win. It's not about making money. I have many much less risky ways of making money than this (buying Chelsea football club). I don't want to throw my money away, but it's really about having fun and that means success and trophies.

People always use the word 'obsession' in a negative way, which I'm always amazed by. We are not obsessed in the way that, if we don't win it, we'll just go and shoot ourselves. That's not the case. We are obsessed with the Champions League because this is a great competition to win. In a positive way, we try to search for the victory.

Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed.

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.

Chelsea always want to win trophies.

Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb the steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar?

Men should press forward, in fame's glorious chase; Nobles look backward, and so lose the race.

If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.