Soccer is the ballet of the masses.
Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.
The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.
You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.
I've never tried to hide the fact that it is my intention to become the best.
When you win, you don't get carried away. But if you go step by step, with confidence, you can go far.
I don't believe skill was, or ever will be, the result of coaches. It is a result of a love affair between the child and the ball.
The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.
I learned all about life with a ball at my feet.
The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory.
Football is freedom.
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.
I am constantly being asked about individuals. The only way to win is as a team. Football is not about one or two or three star players.
The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when no one else is watching.
I spent a lot of money on booze, birds, and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.
Soccer is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.
Soccer is a game for 22 people that run around, play the ball, and one referee who makes a slew of mistakes, and in the end, Germany always wins.