After saying I was retiring from the national team, I thought about it and realized I was sending the wrong message to people that fought for their dreams.

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"The only victory that counts is the one over yourself."

- Lionel Messi

Personal Growth

"You can overcome anything, if and only if you love something enough."

- Lionel Messi

Love

"In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigor and precision."

- Lionel Messi

Determination

"I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else."

- Lionel Messi

Teamwork

"You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it."

- Lionel Messi

Aspirations

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"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."

- Leonardo DaVinci

Inspiration

"Man must rise above the Earth—to the top of the atmosphere and beyond—for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives."

- Socrates

Inspiration

"The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels across trackless lands in prehistoric times, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, above all obstacles, on the infinite highway of the air."

- Wilbur Wright

Inspiration

"Sometimes, flying feels too God-like to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see."

- Charles A. Lindbergh

Inspiration

"I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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