“Legends are best left as legends and attempts to make them real are rarely successful”
Source: Elric of Melniboné
“I came like a king, left like a legend.”
Before playing his last game in Parc des Princes, Paris. https://twitter.com/Ibra_official/status/731025180777172992
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