“I want to retire at the top. At 34, I’ll hang up my boots. I’ve already invested in real estate, buying buildings in Africa and France. I just don’t see myself still playing after that.”
— Ousmane Dembélé
You don’t need to be cold. Just inaccessible. Respond slower. Reveal less. Be polite, but unreadable. When people have to guess how you feel, they start treating you like someone they can’t afford to miscalculate. That’s how distance breeds influence.
you must believe you are special and then go so hard, for so long, with such violent refusal to accept any other ending, that reality itself starts running out of ways to tell you no. you must wage a war daily against the ordinary outcome, until the belief you invented out of nothing in a room by yourself has been hammered into the world so many times that it stops being a claim and becomes reality.
“If Chelsea hadn’t won the 2012 Champions League, I wouldn’t have signed for them. I was very close to joining Manchester United… that’s why I’ll always thank Didier Drogba”
— Eden Hazard