In football, everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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.
Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication, and respect for authority.
The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
In football, the result is an impostor. You can do things really, really well but not win. There's something beautiful about that.
Football is the ballet of the masses.
I would not be bothered if we lost every game as long as we won the league.
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Football is an honest game. It's true to life. It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life.
Football is like life, it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication, and respect for authority.
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.
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.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.
The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory.
Football is a simple game; 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes, and at the end, the Germans always win.
Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.