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.
Interpretation
Individual achievements are less important than overall team success.
This quote emphasizes the idea that personal accolades, such as scoring goals, pale in comparison to the achievement of the team's goals and victories. Cristiano Ronaldo highlights that a successful outcome for the team matters more than who specifically contributes to that success, showcasing the importance of collaboration and collective efforts in sports and life.
In practice
Motivating a sports team before a big match.
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.
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 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
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.
It wasn't an excuse. It was a fact. He'd had to make his way alone, and no one - not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses - ever makes it alone.
It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.
When you want success as badly as you want the air, then you will get it. There is no other secret of success.
Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band-Aid remedies never last.
I don't think there's too many Aboriginal people out there who are successful that don't want to help make gains for our people.
I won at every level - all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I've won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won't be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.
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