The work of a team should always embrace a great player, but the great player must always work.
Alex FergusonRead
If you're going to be a footballer, be a great one.If you're going to have a dream, dream big.
Interpretation
Strive for excellence in your pursuits and aim high with your aspirations.
This quote emphasizes the importance of not only committing to a chosen path, such as being a footballer, but also to excel at it. Additionally, it encourages individuals to dream without limitations, suggesting that big dreams can lead to greater achievements and fulfillment in life.
In practice
During a motivational talk for young athletes, this quote can inspire them to pursue football rigorously.
The work of a team should always embrace a great player, but the great player must always work.
I remember the first time I saw him. He was 13 and just floated over the ground like a cockier spaniel chasing a piece of silver paper in the wind.
David Beckham is Britain's finest striker of a football not because of God-given talent but because he practises with a relentless application that the vast majority of less gifted players wouldn't contemplate.
I think Rafael Benítez was an angry man. He must have been disturbed for some reason. I think you have got to cut through the venom of it and hopefully he'll reflect and understand what he said was absolutely ridiculous.
I can't believe it. I can't believe it. Football. Bloody hell.
To not apologize for the behavior of the players to another manager is unthinkable. It's a disgrace, but I don't expect Wenger to ever apologize...he's that type of person.
Understand that if a deep desire lives in your heart, a dream that is part of your soul's fiber, a path exists to bring it to life.
Start wide, expand further, and never look back.
When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
Hard work beats all the tonics and vitamins in the world.
I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.
On the Bowery, in the ornate carcass of a formerly grand vaudeville theater, a dance marathon limps along. The contestants, young girls and their fellas, hold one another up, determined to make their mark, to bite back at the dreams sold to them in newspaper advertisements and on the radio. They have sores on their feet but stars in their eyes.
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