Football is a simple game. It's just very hard to play it simple.

Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.

It is better to fail with your own vision than to fail with another man's vision.

Players that aren't true leaders but try to be, always bash other players after a mistake. True leaders on the pitch already assume others will make mistakes.

If you have the ball, you must make the field as big as possible, and if you don't have the ball, you must make it as small as possible.

Playing football is very simple, but playing simple football is the hardest thing there is.

There’s only one moment in which you can arrive in time. If you’re not there, you’re either too early or too late.

Every disadvantage has its advantage.

I'm ex-player, ex-technical director, ex-coach, ex-manager, ex-honorary president. A nice list that once again shows that everything comes to an end.

The difference between right and wrong is often not more than five metres.

Why couldn't you beat a richer club? I've never seen a bag of money score a goal.

Thy word O God is the Truth.

Getting healthy will always result in weight loss as a side effect, but a side effect of dieting and weight loss is often poorer health.

I reinvented myself. I acquired a taste for evil. I found I have a talent for it. And I murdered the old me.

The best ad is a good product.

Language is memory and metaphor.

I have to kind of like switch heads. Sometimes I manage it seamlessly, and other times I feel rather all over the place. I feel a bit schizophrenic, like I have a split personality.

There's no better friend to any merchant than a fair competitor.

In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.

Whatever you're ready for is ready for you.

I follow no doctrine. I don't belong to a church or a temple or a synagogue or an ashram.