Blood, sweat and toil: The foundations for the legacy of Cristiano Ronaldo

Juuso Kilpeläinen

8th June 2018 | 11:14 PM

In his relentless quest for personal improvement, Cristiano Ronaldo has given fans a most important life-lesson. There can always be someone more gifted around the corner, but if you work your backside off, success and fame have no choice but to knock on your door.

“I don’t see anyone better than me. No player does things that I cannot do myself, but I see things others can’t do. There’s no more complete player than me. I’m the best player in history — in the good and the bad moments”

– Cristiano accepting his fifth Ballon d’Or at the Eiffel Tower in December 2017.

In his opus Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, German-Swiss philosopher Karl Jaspers (1883–1969) emphasizes that the greatest among us have always maintained their relationship with other people at the ‘common level’. If they haven’t been people amongst other people, they’ve been effectively deprived of their greatness. To self-declare of being  superior to your peers should strip you off that superiority. An argument so often used against Cristiano.

Countless hours in the gym and never-ending training sessions form the foundations on which the legacy of Cristiano Ronaldo is built.
Countless hours in the gym and never-ending training sessions form the foundations on which the legacy of Cristiano Ronaldo is built. Artwork by Charbak Dipta.

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