I always think that I would have become an actor if I hadn't been a soccer player.

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

Success isn't determined by how many times you win, but by how you play the week after you lose.

Football is the only sport where you put people together, it doesn't matter if you are rich, or poor, or black, or white. It is one nation. This is the beauty of football.

The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.

There is always someone out there getting better than you by training harder than you.

A team is not made up of isolated individuals. Always stay in the game. Don't be passive. Football is a team game. No one plays alone. Success depends on your whole team being a single unit.

Great teams are not made up of many well-rounded players. Great teams are made up of a variety of players, each having their own strengths.

The head talks to the heart and the heart talks to the feet.

Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.

I was born to play football, just like Beethoven was born to write music and Michelangelo was born to paint.

You are the grim, goal-oriented ones who will not believe that the joy is in the journey rather than the destination no matter how many times it has been proven to you.

I love architecture, but I learned early on that architects just don't make a lot of money.

It is the conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace.

Knowledge in my view is a form of action. It involves endeavors to get it right, and more broadly it concerns aimings, which can be functional rather than intentional.

In the 66 years that I have been alive, there has not been one hour, of one day, of one month, of one year, when there has not been a threat aimed at us.

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

My recent activities have been concentrated on criticism on and actions against Japan's and worldwide plutonium programs, since it is, as I believe, one of the greatest threats to the world.

The Sicilian tyrants never devised a greater punishment than envy.

The trouble with school is they give you the answer, then they give you the exam. That's not life.

If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.