"We have to stay humble, keep working and keep improving"
About this Quote
The first move is collective: "we". Even when he's the headline, he pulls the frame back to team culture, which doubles as a quiet rebuttal to the caricature of the modern football celebrity as a one-man brand. "Stay humble" is less moral instruction than reputation management - an inoculation against the backlash that follows swagger, especially in a sport where confidence is celebrated until it becomes a meme.
Then come the verbs: "keep working" and "keep improving". Not "win", not "dominate", not "prove them wrong". It's a subtle refusal of the narrative economy around football, which demands climaxes and declarations. Mbappe is selling continuity. The subtext is that greatness is conditional and temporary; form can vanish, opponents adapt, bodies break. Repetition ("keep... keep...") does the cultural work here, turning ambition into routine. It's the kind of sentence that plays well in a locker room, a press conference, and a social feed because it reassures everyone - fans, teammates, sponsors, critics - that the machine is still running, and he's still hungry.
Quote Details
| Topic | Humility |
|---|---|
| Source | Post-match interview after France vs Argentina, FIFA World Cup Russia 2018 (June 30, 2018) [translated] |
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