I decide my future. I decide what I want to do. Nobody else. If I decide this will be my last year, maybe it is. If I decide it will be my last contract, I decide that. Nobody else. So I will decide when the moment is there.
Zlatan IbrahimovicRead
I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.
Interpretation
Self-confidence comes from within and doesn't require external validation.
This quote expresses the importance of self-assurance and the idea that true worth is recognized internally rather than through the approval of others. Zlatan Ibrahimovic conveys that one should possess confidence and acknowledge their own abilities without feeling the need to prove themselves to others, emphasizing personal identity and self-awareness.
In practice
This quote can inspire youth at a motivational seminar focusing on self-esteem.
I decide my future. I decide what I want to do. Nobody else. If I decide this will be my last year, maybe it is. If I decide it will be my last contract, I decide that. Nobody else. So I will decide when the moment is there.
When you buy me, you are buying a Ferrari. If you drive a Ferrari, you put premium petrol in the tank, you hit the motorway, and you step on the gas.
Wherever I go people recognize me, call my name, cheer for me. But there are names no one cares to remember, that no one cheers for: the 805 million people suffering from hunger in the world today.
If you are different, or you have minimum possibilities, you can still succeed. I am living proof of that.
If you are too nice, you will just get eaten alive. The football world is not always a nice place.
That's my hunger. If I start to relax, and I lose that, then I had better stop my football. I need that hunger. I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing.
If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Sitting around on your big fat gluteus maximus talking about the good old days. The good old days are right this second. You've got to exercise VIG-OR-OUSLY! Life is tough. Life is a challenge. Life is a battlefield... . Life is an athletic event, and you must train for it.
If we try and fail, we have temporary disappointments. But if we do not try at all, we have permanent regrets.
Some of my greatest pleasures have come from finding ways to overcome obstacles.
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