We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
Every day of my life, I’m trying to find a different way to get better.
When something goes wrong, smile, because there’s always a next play.
Don’t waste talent. No matter what you do, don’t waste talent.
The hardest thing to do is work hard when no one is watching.
Wins and losses come a dime a dozen. But effort? Nobody can judge that. Because effort is between you and you.
I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.
You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.
All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.
All I know of morality I learned from football.
It’s not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.
Football is a part of me. When I play, the world wakes up around me.
Football is Freedom, a whole universe.
One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
I write what I like to write. Those who like to listen to it, listen to it. And the ones who don’t, watch football and drink beer, jog, go to discos and so forth. I never claimed to be a man for all seasons.
International football is the continuation of war by other means.
They say I couldn’t play football, I was too small. They say I couldn’t play basketball, I wasn’t tall. They say I couldn’t play baseball at all and now everyday of my life, I ball.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.
No one has ever drowned in sweat.
Everything is practice.