Motivation Quote by Alberto Tomba

There’s a sly self-own baked into Tomba’s line, the kind only a national sports icon can deliver without sounding like he’s scolding. He’s not diagnosing Italy with some grand cultural flaw; he’s describing a familiar rhythm: skepticism first, passion later, and only once the thing is tangible enough to touch. The “see it in front of us” phrasing is doing double work. It flatters Italians as visceral, sensory people who need real-life proof, not abstract promises. It also needles a media-and-politics culture that can treat big projects as distant theater until the cameras, crowds, and flags make them unavoidable.

The timing matters. “By February” points to the Olympics as a predictable switch that flips when winter arrives, schedules lock, and the spectacle becomes immediate. Tomba, a skier whose fame was built on televised peaks of drama, understands that national emotion is often event-driven, not principle-driven. Olympic “fever” isn’t just enthusiasm; it’s contagion, a communal trance that crowds out earlier doubts and turns fragmented attention into one storyline.

Subtext: don’t waste energy hand-wringing in advance. Italy will show up when the stage is set. Coming from an athlete, it’s also a quiet pitch for unity-through-performance: whatever Italy argues about in November, it tends to rally behind a start gate and a scoreboard once the stakes are visible. That’s less romantic than it sounds, and more honest.