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.
Interpretation
The quote reflects the admiration and high regard of teammates for a player's potential, emphasizing the importance of recognition in achieving success.
Cristiano Ronaldo shares a personal experience that highlights the unanimous admiration of his teammates for another player after a match, suggesting that the player's skills and qualities earned the respect and desire of his colleagues to have him join their team. This serves to illustrate how a person's talent can inspire others and play a critical role in their own success within a group setting.
In practice
During a team meeting to encourage new signings.
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.
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.
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.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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.
I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.
I do today what people won't, so I achieve tomorrow what other people can't.
The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest market opportunities. And that's a huge thing. Solve hunger, literacy and energy problems, get the gratitude of the world and become a billionaire in the process.
Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.
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