I always tend to think my goals are beautiful goals. That is what I want to score; beautiful goals, and create beautiful chances for my team-mates.

Keep calm and pass me the ball.

You are not going to see me puffing around the pitch. There is a saying in Bulgaria that great quality doesn’t require much effort.

Self-discipline is a self-enlarging process.

Think it, Believe it, Prepare for it, then give all you have to DO it!

There is a great independence, and a confident immunity to risk, in all drinks made out of cactus.

I hear hundreds of years of life. I hear wind and rain and fire and beetles. I hear the seasons changing and birds and squirrels. I hear the life of the trees this wood came from.

Dreams: the place most of us get what we need.

The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language.

I take something that happened to me in 1983, and I make it happen to somebody else in 1943. I pick my life apart that way, try to understand it better by writing straight through it.

I do like match play. I like trying to match an opponent shot for shot. It's a challenge. And it's something different.

Even the most self-confident people, at one point of their lives, felt like outsiders or felt like they weren't being heard or seen or witnessed in some way.

The strongest presence is so often an absence.