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.
Interpretation
Individual achievements are less important than overall team success.
This quote emphasizes the idea that personal accolades, such as scoring goals, pale in comparison to the achievement of the team's goals and victories. Cristiano Ronaldo highlights that a successful outcome for the team matters more than who specifically contributes to that success, showcasing the importance of collaboration and collective efforts in sports and life.
In practice
Motivating a sports team before a big match.
There's no point in making predictions. It's not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.
Without football, my life is worth nothing.
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.
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
I'm ready to lose my life if that's what Portugal needs to win. I'll play vs USA even if I play with one leg.
In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the Mountain. Once there, he can be great and kind-but he must get there first.
My big goal in life was always to figure out how I can make a lot of money so I can go off and make films irrespective of the opinion of the three or four critics who seem to rule the roost.
Success each day should be judged by the seeds sown, not the harvest reaped.
Success is a sort of metaphysical experience. I live exactly as I did before - only on a slightly bigger scale. Naturally, I won't be corrupted. I'll sit there in my Rolls, uncorrupted, and tell my chauffeur, uncorruptedly, where to go.
My ambition didn't grow out of nowhere. It was planted in me by a community that nurtured me.
Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.
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