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Eden Hazard is an excellent attacking midfielder and wide midfielder, known for his creativity, speed, dribbling, excellent passes and most of all for his inspiration to millions of football fans all over the world. But more often than not, the 28-year-old has manage to inspire fans and foes alike with his words. Here are a few selections.
#1 Don't Play Blame Game
“Over here people like a scrap, like a battle. I will just keep playing the way I do. I will try and entertain the fans, create assists, score goals and concentrate on that regardless. Hazard told Evening Standard, then he added 'I can still take the hits, it’s not a problem for me. I accept the blows. I can take the punches like a boxer.”
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As for Eden Hazard, the fouls on him this season on the English Premier League is inarguable, he told Independent, "That's my mentality. Just because somebody has fouled me, there is no reason for me to be nasty to him. I try to respect football as much as possible, and when someone is injured, you put the ball out." -As at the time he said that, Hazard has played 2,301 minutes of Premier League football with over 26 appearances that season, according to the statistics then on whoscored.com. Hazard has been fouled 75 times, an average of a foul every 30 minutes. In the Champions League – 534 minutes over six appearances encompassing 28 fouls on him – that frequency rises to a foul every 19 minutes.
Eden Hazard wants us to know that when someone offends us, we don't have to feel hurt, betrayed and/or frustrated. Because offenses are painful, one way to find healing from the hurt is to send joy and love to those who wound us. No wonder he is always putting on an amazing smile.
#2 Your Inner Circle is Your 'Dream Team'
While family and career is important to us, with each demanding our time and energy. There will be a time where it will require that we sacrifice one of them for the survival of the other. But the big question is which of them will it be, career or family?
For Eden Hazard, family is most important than career because if you sacrifice your family for your career, you cannot replace your family but if you sacrifice your career for your family you can always find and build a replacement, hence Eden Hazard related to Telegraph the importance of his family over his career.
Hazard demonstrated that love when he told Telegraph that, "Football is good, but family, close friends, my brothers - I have family everywhere - is the most important thing."
He also admitted that, "If you told me to choose between family and football, then it is no choice. I take family, of course, like everyone.
Being a fierce protector of his family he added, 'But I prefer to keep it private, and that's it. I just focus on the football." There is so much we can learn from Hazard as he expressed his warm relationship with his kids when he said, “When the game is finished, it’s completely finished. I’m with my kids. Sometimes people say to me ‘Oh, did you see the game?’ and I say ‘No, I didn’t see the game’. I watch if my friends are playing or my brothers. But not always. No, my kids now, the big one is six, another one four, they start to play so I am with them and they want to play if I start to watch TV. They tell me: ‘Come on, play in the garden.’ They watch more football than me. And they play everywhere, even inside the house, like I did as a kid.”
#3 Negative Role Model will Drag You Down a Horrible Spiral
Hazard expressed that he has been inspired by Mourinho when he told Skysports that, "Jose Mourinho and I get along well. I've lots of respect for him. He gives me a lot of confidence. After a bad game, he dares to say, 'We have played with 10 today,' but that's it. At moments like that, he leaves me alone."
Hazard said in an interview with Sport/Foot Magazine in Belgium, "I ask myself what I can do to become like Messi and Ronaldo and score 50 or 60 goals in a season."
The truth is that your most important job is to get inspired and inspire others. This is the best kept secret of those who achieve superstar status in the field. Everyone can kick the ball but the superstars however, do kick the ball in the way that profoundly inspire others.
#4 Persist, Persevere and Press Forward
Following an embarrassing defeat from Arsenal playing under Antonio Conte “Everything changed at Arsenal. A turning point,” Hazard told The Guardian. Adding that, “We were losing 3-0, we were beaten but we got together – coaching staff and players – and determined that things would improve. Hazard said, "We are professionals. We know when we're playing badly, so if you have a poor game, you work in training to put things right so form comes back."
Often, the biggest error we make is not effectively evaluating our past errors. If we effectively evaluate our failures, we will find the best opportunity to grow.
#5 Celebrate Small Win and Aim Higher
Report from Skysport revealed the golden desire of Eden's heart when he said, "The Champions League is the one thing missing from my career. When I look at the history of the competition and the people that have taken part, the top, top players have all won it. For many, it is why they have been regarded as top players."
So, what is it you want? I have seen people who don't know what they want and what they lack. This is preventing them from getting what they want. To help us, Hazard's quotes invites us to know what we want and to effectively make plans to achieve them.
#6 Seize Every Opportunity
In an interview with Thierry Henry Chelsea's winger Eden Hazard on Sky Sports said, "A couple of games, I played up front when Diego Costa was not there. We know to create movement - not even to get the ball, but create space for others. Now I understand football is not always with the ball at my feet."
He also admitted to Telegraph the importance of assisting team players in achieving common goal when he said that, "I like it when I am in the middle; I am closer to the ball. The manager wants me to pass, to make assists, create chances, and I do more because I think the position is more central, and I don't ask all the time for the ball at my feet."
You will never be ready, seize every opportunity, create the chances, take the risk and believe in your team.
