I feel endless need to LEARN, to IMPROVE, to EVOLVE, not only to please the coach and the fans, but also to feel SATISFIED with myself
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of continual self-improvement and personal satisfaction beyond external validation.
Cristiano Ronaldo expresses the intrinsic desire to learn and grow as an individual, highlighting that his motivations go beyond just pleasing others, such as coaches and fans. Instead, he seeks deep self-satisfaction and aims to evolve continuously, signifying that true fulfillment comes from within and not solely from external recognition.
In practice
In a motivational speech to students about the importance of personal growth.
There's no point in making predictions. It's not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.
Without football, my life is worth nothing.
After we played Sporting last week, the lads in the dressing room talked about him constantly, and on the plane back from the game they urged me to sign him. That's how highly they rated him.
Scoring goals is a great feeling, but the most important thing to me is that the team is successful - it doesn't matter who scores the goals as long as we're winning.
My father was always in good spirits, he loved football. It makes me a bit sad because if he could enjoy seeing me now, what I have achieved, that would be a highlight in his life. But I'm sure that he watches over me from above.
I'm ready to lose my life if that's what Portugal needs to win. I'll play vs USA even if I play with one leg.
We have our hands, we have our brains, we have the challenge all around us, and we have within (from whatever source) the will to strive. That is enough; there is no need to assert 'belief' in that which we do not, as yet, know.
Keep your weather eye open, and sing out every time.
Dream long enough and dream hard enough you will come to know dreaming can make it so.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
You can be whoever you choose to become in the future, just do it. Just see it and visualize it and every day of your life project that about yourself.
Ask me to play. I'll play. Ask me to shoot. I'll shoot. Ask me to pass. I'll pass. Ask me to steal, block out, sacrifice, lead, dominate. Anything. But it's not what you ask of me. It's what I ask of myself.
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