I learned all about life with a ball at my feet.
If you're attacking, you don't get as tired as when you're chasing.
Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.
The trouble with football is that it is not played the year round.
Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication, and respect for authority.
Football is the ballet of the masses.
I am more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world.
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.
Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference.
The greatest game you can win is won within.
Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.
Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.
When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge.
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.
In football, the worst things are excuses. Excuses mean you cannot grow or move forward.
Football is a whole skill to itself. A whole world. A whole universe to itself. Football is freedom.
Football is like life. It requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication, and respect for authority.