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.
Interpretation
The quote reflects the admiration and high regard of teammates for a player's potential, emphasizing the importance of recognition in achieving success.
Cristiano Ronaldo shares a personal experience that highlights the unanimous admiration of his teammates for another player after a match, suggesting that the player's skills and qualities earned the respect and desire of his colleagues to have him join their team. This serves to illustrate how a person's talent can inspire others and play a critical role in their own success within a group setting.
In practice
During a team meeting to encourage new signings.
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Without football, my life is worth nothing.
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 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
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Your net worth can fluctuate, but your self-worth should only appreciate.
Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to [grow and] become successful. For that reason it makes sense to be grateful for adversities that help you grow, even if it is only in understanding and compassion for other's suffering.
If the grass is greener on the other side it`s probably getting better care. Success is a matter of sticking to a set of common sense principles anyone can master.
The key is not to worry about being successful, but to instead to work toward being significant - and the success will naturally follow.
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I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have concluded that most do not want to be writers working eight and ten hours a day and accomplishing little; they want to have been writers, garnering the rewards of having completed a best-seller. They aspire to the rewards of writing but not to the travail.
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