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
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.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the contrast between fame and the plight of the forgotten, emphasizing the issue of global hunger.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic uses his celebrity status to draw attention to a significant social issue: the 805 million individuals suffering from hunger worldwide. While he enjoys recognition and admiration, he reflects on the harsh reality that many lives exist in obscurity, often overlooked and unsupported. This quote serves as a reminder of our responsibility to acknowledge and assist those in need, advocating for greater awareness and action towards alleviating hunger.
In practice
During a speech at a charity event focused on world hunger.
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.
If you are different, or you have minimum possibilities, you can still succeed. I am living proof of that.
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.
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.
At such a moment, it is not the physical pain which hurts the most (and this applies to adults as much as to punished children); it is the mental agony caused by the injustice, the unreasonableness of it all.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.
Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars.
Habit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! The root of error.
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