“My ambition is to hit.400 and talk 1.000.”

“Hit that back-stabber where it hurts, right in the ambition.”

“I have no ambitions nor desires.
To be a poet is not my ambition,
It's simply my way of being alone.”

“My ambition is handicapped by my laziness.”

“Talking is not enough; words don’t clarify anything. I’ll have to hit upon something, but what?”

“My ambition was to live like music.”

“Bragan and Walker talked to me the most. The fellow who helped me most of all was Buck Clarkson. I think he lives in Donora. He managed me in the Puerto Rican League when I was a boy. He used to see me throw a ball from the outfield 400 feet on the line, most of the time wild. And I hit good. Buck Clarkson used to tell me I am as good as anybody in big leagues. That helped me a lot.”

“My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.”

“My ambition is limited to capturing something transient.”

“My ambition is always to get better and better.”