Motivation Quote by Ruud van Nistelrooy

There is something disarmingly plain about Ruud van Nistelrooy saying, "I really want be of great value for the team" - and that plainness is the point. For an elite striker with a reputation built on finishing, the temptation is always to talk in the currency of goals, ego, and individual destiny. Instead, he reaches for a softer metric: value. Not glory, not stardom, not even winning. Value suggests usefulness, reliability, a kind of professional humility that plays well in a dressing room and even better in a press scrum.

The slightly awkward phrasing ("want be") reads like the telltale texture of a non-native English speaker doing media work in a high-pressure environment. That matters. It signals effort and sincerity, a player meeting the global spectacle halfway rather than performing fluent soundbites. Athletes are trained to deliver safe quotes; this one feels safer because its imperfections make it harder to dismiss as pure PR.

Subtextually, it's a negotiation with expectation. Van Nistelrooy arrived in clubs where the striker is either a savior or a scapegoat. "Great value" is a preemptive answer to both: if the goals come, he's invaluable; if they don't, he can still be framed as contributing - pressing, linking play, mentoring, doing the unglamorous work that keeps a team coherent.

It's also a quiet bid for belonging. The best teams are hierarchies disguised as collectives, and this line is how a superstar asks to be judged as a teammate, not just a weapon.