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Carli Lloyd's advice on working to get to the top

7 Sept 2025 · 1 min

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A short motivational monologue (spoken by Carli Lloyd) emphasizing that talent alone is insufficient to reach or stay at the top. The speaker reflects on relying on talent through early (U21) days, warns against complacency, and urges consistent hard work—'grind', 'sleeves up'—and focusing on what one can control.

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Your talent's not enough for me. I relied so much on my talent for up until the U21 days. If I wanted to give 80%, one day, I gave 80. It was better than most people's hundred. But I learned that just because you're talented doesn't mean that you're gonna get to the top. It doesn't mean that you're gonna stay at the top. There's so many things that are out of your control that you can't worry about. And I go through it on a routine basis here. You just got to grind. You gotta rol. Sleeves up and you got to get to work.