First of all, it would be great for world football to have a competitive Chinese team as China traditionally has deep relation to sports in general.

If I walked on water, my accusers would say it is because I can't swim.

Football is a game that fascinates people around the World like nothing else.

Without a healthy team spirit you won't get anywhere in football.

If you have team spirit you can even beat better teams. As far as team sport is concerned China might need a change in attitude in comparison to the one in table tennis.

You need players that stand for emotion in football. Football today is a game for television.

Success is not winning the World Cup. It may be a goal in your mind but success is having a team that is improving all the time.

China needs a table-tennis-like solidity in football.

Being successful means good results for the national team at first in the regional competitions like the Asian Cup and keeping in mind to go for Gold at a World Cup in the future.

China has great potentials; the people are hard-working and focused. But they have to close the gap as far as the pace of the game is concerned. Football in the future will get faster and faster.

Football is my life. I guess I can't live without it.

As you fight any war, sometimes the result may be defeat. Learn to be heroic even in your defeats.

Do you think peace of mind can be found in holding a grudge… or harboring resentment… or wallowing in thoughts of what could have been? Me neither.

In the end, I think, the state's rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.

The only perfect climate is bed.

What is it at which all true artists are aiming? It is life, it is reality.

A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.

When Donald Trump becomes president, he'll fly on a jumbo jet rebadged Hair Force One. It will be oversized to contain his massive ego, and will have all the latest and greatest blowdryer technology.

Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.

Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.

I got to score goals and get points. I got to get on the board somehow.