A Quote by Marcel Desailly

Football gives the African people hope, a true motivation for their life.

Marcel Desailly

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African Football Gives Hope Life Motivation People True

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Marcel Desailly
French - Footballer
Born: September 7, 1968

There's a love of San Diego that I will always cherish, but this is the East. It's football - these people love rooting for the Ravens, and this gives you extra motivation in life to go get what you want.

Eric Weddle

Don't hang on to your failures, because you can always try again. Trying gives hope. Hope gives us life.

Tsem Tulku

I plan with the BBC African Player of the Year award to become an agent of hope and positive change in the lives of the millions of African youths who have lost hope and are deprived.

Emmanuel Adebayor

Popular success is a wonderful gift if it happens, but like money, it's not the motivation. The effort to create a work of art that is true and potentially lasting, that is the very best work of art you can create at that point in your life - a book that may only reach or move a few people but will seem to people somehow transformative. That's the ideal; that's always the motivation.

Claire Messud

Football really has saved my family and it's true that it saves a lot of families in Africa. It gives us the means to be able to give a better life to our loved ones.

Gervinho

I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.

John Henrik Clarke

There are certain things that people love to do, and they can't really explain it. That's me and football. The game gives me hope. It lets me be myself.

Christian McCaffrey

As an African American actress, there are people who have been staples in my life that opened a door that I can walk through. I hope that I can have that impact.

Monique Coleman

As an African American actress there are people who have been staples in my life that opened a door that I can walk through. I hope that I can have that impact.

Monique Coleman

Having the chance to play sports growing up teaches you all kinds of life lessons. It gives young people confidence and instills in them motivation and drive to be the best one can be. It's absolutely invaluable.

April Ross

We must have a pure, honest, and warm-hearted motivation, and on top of that, determination, optimism, hope, and the ability not to be discouraged. The whole of humanity depends on this motivation.

Dalai Lama

Just looking when I was little at pictures of cars and houses that I wanted - it gives you a certain motivation, it gives you a goal.

Jason Day

Motivation remains key to the marathon: the motivation to begin; the motivation to continue; the motivation never to quit.

Hal Higdon

I believe that life supports what supports more of life. In other words, motivation does matter. If you're just trying to take care of yourself, you're part of life and I believe life steps in and gives you a certain level of insight.