Carlos Tevez's English should be better than what it is

Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl,except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish.

To be really happy, we must throw our hearts over the bar and hope that our bodies will follow.

Football needs its roots, it needs its connection with the supporters. But those in charge seem to think they can do without them.

If it stays as it is I can't see it altering.

Napoleon wanted his generals to be lucky. I don't think he would have worked with me.

Very few great goals actually go in.

It was nothing personal: if it had been, I would have left him on so he could have suffered like everyone else.

Footballers are no different from human beings.

The ambition of an England manager should be to become England manager.

Agents do nothing for the good of football. I'd like to see them lined up against a wall and machine-gunned ?some accountants and solicitors with them.

There is so much we do not know about the imagination. That is why we must study it.

Let time that makes you homely make you sage.

I love to sit on a mountain top and gaze. I don't think of anything but the people I care about and the view.

All power that anyone can possibly use is within, waiting to be made visible, first by recognizing it, then affirming it as ours.

I had always been fascinated by the bizarre world of cards. It was a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments were meted out immediately.

Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.

Big arms are fun, and if their training doesn't interfere with the rest of the program, wait till everybody's gone, like I do.

To me, authentic love is a sacred encounter we all yearn for.

Good intentions do not guarantee good results. Somehow Andrew Keates turns works of merit into evenings of entertainment. Don't call him a dramaturge, call him an alchemist.

My parents were great in the sense that they treated me like a human being when I was growing up. They showed me how beautiful things can be and how ugly they can be.