“I always thought I wanted to play professionally, and I always knew that to do that I'd have to make a lot of sacrifices.”
Lionel Messi
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It is a great thing to achieve your dreams, but to keep being successful is more difficult than you might imagine.
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Reaching the top is one mountain. Staying there year after year is a different, lonelier climb.
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