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.
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.