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.
I'm not doing the run to become rich or famous.
It's not the way I threw the football - it's not particular games that I won - but that they remember that here's a guy that believed, that worked hard. Although things didn't always go in his favor, he continued to press through, and with his faith in himself and his faith in God, he was able to accomplish great things.
Follow your path, and let the people talk.
No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it's government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.
Find out what you love._x000D_ Do it because you love it._x000D_ Stick with it._x000D_ Start now.
I have spent most of my time worrying about things that have never happened. Worrying is not an action! In fact, it is action that alleviates concern and dissipates worries. Take more actions when you feel that worry is creeping in to steal your time. It need not be a huge action, any action in the direction you want to go will do.
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