“You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.”
Lionel Messi
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I start early and I stay late, day after day, year after year. It took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success.
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The line cuts through the myth of sudden genius. Behind the magic was a teenager doing the unglamorous work for years.
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