There is always someone out there getting better than you by training harder than you.
A team is not made up of isolated individuals. Always stay in the game. Don’t be passive. Football is a team game. No one plays alone. Success depends on your whole team being a single unit.
I played futsal growing up in Baurd. In futsal, you need to think quickly and play quickly, so it’s easier for you when you move to normal football.
I was born to play football, just like Beethoven was born to write music and Michelangelo was born to paint.
Be strong, my young friends; that is my advice to you. You will be nearer to Heaven through football than through the study of the Gita. These are bold words; but I have to say them, for I love you. I know where the shoe pinches.
Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it.
Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you’re willing to pay the price.
Football isn’t a contact sport; it’s a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport...
Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence.
Gentlemen, this is a football.
Zidane is unique. The ball flows with him. He is more like a dancer than a football player.
I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it.
Without football, my life is worth nothing.
We don’t want to tell our dreams. We want to show them.
If you think you’re perfect already, then you never will be.
I know those who like football like me.
I am always motivated. I am ambitious and I want to always improve.
There is no harm in dreaming of becoming the world’s best player. It is all about trying to be the best. I will keep working hard to achieve it but it is within my capabilities.
Goals are only important if they win games.
I am more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world.