To be successful, you have to give everything.
Football is about joy. It's about dribbling. I favor every idea that makes the game beautiful. Every good idea has to last.
Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.
When you win, you don't get carried away. But if you go step by step, with confidence, you can go far.
The rules of soccer are very simple, basically it is this: if it moves, kick it. If it doesn't move, kick it until it does.
Football is like chess. Only without the dice.
The goalkeeper is the jewel in the crown and getting at him should be almost impossible. It's the biggest sin in football to make him do any work.
If you're attacking, you don't get as tired as when you're chasing.
I learned all about life with a ball at my feet.
You can't win anything with kids.
In football, everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
In football, the worst blindness is only seeing the ball.
Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.
I don't have time for hobbies. At the end of the day, I treat my job as a hobby. It's something I love doing.
I spent a lot of money on booze, birds, and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.
Football is like life. It requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication, and respect for authority.