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
What this quote means
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.
Themes
FootballDreamsExcellenceMotivationAspiration
In practice
Example use cases
During a motivational talk for young athletes, this quote can inspire them to pursue football rigorously.
More from Alex Ferguson
All quotes →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.
Alex FergusonRead
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.
Alex FergusonRead
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.
Alex FergusonRead
I can't believe it. I can't believe it. Football. Bloody hell.
Alex FergusonRead
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.
Alex FergusonRead
Similar quotes
Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.
Steve JobsRead
Okay listen, you think I'm so inconsequential? Then try this on for size. All those who see unworthiness when they look at me and are given thereby to denying me value - to you I say, I'm not talking about being AS GOOD as you. I hereby declare myself BETTER than you.
Sidney PoitierRead
Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRead
It's hard, when you're up to your armpits in alligators, to remember you came here to drain the swamp.
Ronald ReaganRead
The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
Annie DillardRead
If you find yourself stuck in the middle there is only one way to go, forward.
Richard BransonRead