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"But if you say it's in your heart, you're going to make it. It's about having ambition and a goal, and this is also something else I can say - dream big."

— Salima Mukansanga

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"This is what people thought - so it was up to me to fight until being appointed to the Premier League."

"This gives me the strength and power to think about taking part in a big competition."

"You register with people in charge of sports in your sector, who then send it to the FA, who can then approve it.

“Every team is coming prepared to fight, compete, and win.”

“It’s [an] opportunity to open the door and to show that all African [women] are capable.”

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Men accept servility in order to acquire wealth; as if they could acquire anything of their own when they cannot even assert that they belong to themselves.

Étienne de La Boétie Discourse on Voluntary Servitude (1548)

To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

Confucius

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Emil Cioran The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune, and favor cannot satisfy him.

Jean de La Bruyère Les Caractères (1688)

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