“Money is not a motivating factor. My motivation comes from playing the game I love.”
Lionel Messi
A quiet redirect of the spotlight. He'd rather be measured off the pitch than on it.
“Money is not a motivating factor. My motivation comes from playing the game I love.”
Lionel Messi
“I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else.”
Lionel Messi
“There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game.”
Lionel Messi
“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.”
Lionel Messi
“You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.”
Lionel Messi
“That you are here, that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.”
Walt Whitman · Leaves of Grass, 1855; quoted by Keating
“Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying.”
Robert Herrick · To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time, 1648; quoted by Keating
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.”
Henry David Thoreau · Walden, 1854; recited by the Dead Poets Society club
“O Captain! My Captain!”
Walt Whitman · Leaves of Grass, 1865; quoted throughout Dead Poets Society
“Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone.”
John Keating · Dead Poets Society, 1989
“Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all.”
John Keating · Dead Poets Society, 1989
“There's a time for daring and there's a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for.”
John Keating · Dead Poets Society, 1989