Riyad Mahrez Quotes

I just want to be as successful as I can in football.

I want to prove myself at Chelsea and be successful in the Premiership and the Champions League.

I'm just playing my football, and I will just see what the future holds for me.

I want to win something important with PSG.

Working hard, I hope to achieve the things I did in Manchester with Roma.

My dream is to become the best player in the world.

If I keep playing well for Leicester, all I can do is keep trying to knock on the door.

I would have dreams all the time about me playing in the NFL. Every day I woke up, I said to myself, you know, I'm going to work hard, you know, this day to get to that next level.

If you are ambitious you can have a moment of glory but it will most likely be temporary. But talent always finds its way out.

I don't think about that. I wasn't a kid growing up saying one day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn't on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

During the off-season when you see other people playing in the Super Bowl, you wonder, and you say to yourself, 'Are you ever gonna get there and see what it feels like?' And it pushes you a little bit harder during that off-season to work to try to get there the following year.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.

People think I must have been so talented at an early age, but I don't know - was it talent or hard work? Who knows?

We see the people that have got stars in their eyes, but if you've really got what it takes, you can get from, say the beginnings, to the top in about five years.

A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don't ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren't blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.

I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, 'I've made it.'

I would like to become champion, but I'm realistic about it.

I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That's how I treated my career. I didn't think I was anybody special, anybody different.

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

As an older and wiser man, I don't believe in luck. I believe in hard work and talent and determination.

Talent is crucial. It needs to be driven by motivation, but blind ambition isn't the key.

I had great football players. To be quite truthful, my great football players, the ones who wanted the ball at the end of the games, they weren't focused on money. They want to do something great. They want to go to Pro Bowls. They want to win Super Bowls. Those are the people that succeed in sports - or in business.

I like to teach. And when I spot talent without ambition, it makes me angry. I give students short shrift if they're not willing to do the work. Relying on talent is not enough.