Mauricio Pochettino Quotes

I overhaul myself for my roles. Sooner or later, I will get my due.

I want to be great - in everything I do. As far as football, I always looked up to Kellen Moore of Boise State. I thought it was the coolest thing that he was the winningest QB of all time.

I never met him. But just growing up where Deacon Jones did, he motivated me to be great, showing the NFL was possible.

I'm Romelu Lukaku. I want to create my own history.

I can take so much from someone like Mo Salah.

I believe that football can inspire youngsters to find the path of success in life.

I hate that word — 'lucky.' It cheapens a lot of hard work

Guys, I haven't been doing this for a long time, it's a fluke! I'm gonna share this BAFTA award with all the young dreamers who are determined, who are hard working, who are quite frankly amazing. This is also for you. Blessings for your path and God bless.

I want a kid to look at me and say, 'You know what, this man had no chance in life, but he stayed in there, and he worked hard. He dedicated himself, and he did it'.

When you look at youth, they want to aspire to somebody. You can see that with him you have to work hard, and that's what you bring if you have someone like Ronaldo who embodies hard work and determination.

Every player loves to score goals, but hat-tricks should be savoured, as they don't happen very often.

I was a walk-on at Maryland, I had to earn my scholarship and starter spot, and the things that've come after.

It's great, just to even get mentioned in the category with the type of person like Dwyane Wade, one of the best NBA players in the league today. It's great, and that makes me work even that much harder to be better than him.

Also, I'm obviously a big Tom Brady fan. Everybody loves him. I just like guys like that who have worked hard to get where they're at and have had a lot of success.

Actors who are not accepted are the ones who have to put in the extra effort to get somewhere in their careers. But once you achieve that, everything becomes easier.

My whole life I saw everybody else get shine, I saw everybody else get money, everybody else wanted to rap. I saw them getting record deals and stuff like that. And everytime I saw that it was damn, I can't wait until my time.

It would have been naive to believe that it's an easy job to become the undisputed No. 1 at Barcelona, but that's my target, and it's something I will tackle with all my ambition.

I appreciate what I've achieved, and nearly all of that is because of my dad. He pushed me to train harder than I would have done if he wasn't there to discipline me.

When I grew up I was a huge Michael Jordan fan. That's not very unusual for people to like him, but I just liked reading his books, especially where he came from, getting cut from his high school team. I thought he was a good person, a good role model to look up to.

I think I'ma make every hood proud. Everybody that ever seen me come up, know what I came from, know how I came up, know where I started. I feel like I'ma just make everybody proud.

I want to be one of those strikers who not only scores goals and wins games, but who works hard for the team.

I want to win lots of titles.

My success, I think it is due to the Mizanan family. Everyone in my family is a hard worker.

Football is what, 15 years? I want to invest 100% of my life into the game, so when it's all said and done, I don't want to have regrets.

I love people who succeed in life overcoming various odds.