My dream was to become a footballer, hope to become the best someday. And I worked for it. And I'll tell you that the work is the magic of success.
Interpretation
Success requires hard work and dedication towards achieving one's dreams.
This quote by Samuel Eto'o emphasizes the importance of hard work in the pursuit of one's dreams, particularly the dream of becoming a successful footballer. Eto'o reflects on his aspirations and the effort he invested to achieve his goals, suggesting that hard work is the essential ingredient that transforms dreams into reality.
In practice
In a motivational speech about pursuing your career goals.
Why don't you think we should dream of an African team winning the World Cup for the first time? People never allow this thought to cross their minds, and it is shameful. When you try to even say it, people look at you as if you're joking, but they forget that dreaming is the first step to success.
In all things, you need a good organization. You can have the best player in the world; if you do not have the best team, you will not win.
Football is beautiful. Football is beautiful because whether you win, draw, or lose, you can go and shake your opponent's hand, whether they're white or black or red or blue.
If you believe in something and have the strength not to give up, it can happen. I am the living proof it can be done.
A child comes to see his father play, have fun, make people happy, and what does he see? He sees people booing his father for being black. They make monkey noises. They throw bananas at his teammates and all that.
You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.
I never set out to be a businessman
I ... have two vocations: chess and engineering. If I played chess only, I believe that my success would not have been significantly greater. I can play chess well only when I have fully convalesced from chess and when the 'hunger for chess' once more awakens within me.
But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.
If I can bring joy into the world, then I'll be successful.
I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much.
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