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.
Interpretation
Believing in your goals and persevering can lead to success.
This quote emphasizes the importance of belief and perseverance in achieving one's dreams. Samuel Eto'o, a successful football player, asserts that unwavering faith in one's goals coupled with the strength to persist, even against challenges, can lead to remarkable outcomes, illustrated by his own journey as evidence of this principle.
In practice
This quote can be shared at a motivational workshop to inspire attendees.
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.
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.
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.
Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve more and live richer lives.
A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.
You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.
Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass.
The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted, and other people gave up.
Dreams without movement are delusions, escapes, kid’s play. You have to put your feet into your dreams if they’re ever going to be reality. The dreamers we know and love today are the ones who worked the hardest
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.