I always threw the ball in, because then if I got the ball back, I was the only player unmarked.

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.

If you were to love, love not for the lust that you yearn but the rather the pain that you earn with it.

Reading to small children is a specialty.

The sword of life is the truth of salvation.

I priced my books at what I would want to spend on an electronic book.

This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this and I do not. Everything is unique - and insignificant.

Tantric Zen is all about the practice of zazen meditation. If you meditate well, you'll be in very powerful states of mind and then it really doesn't matter what you do.

Most people think of poise as calm, self-assured dignity; but I call it “just being you”.

A President must call on many persons--some to man the ramparts and to watch the far away, distant posts; others to lead us in science, medicine, education and social progress here at home.

We want to create hope for the person ... we must give hope, always hope.

I know the Pope is opposed to the use of condoms. All I can say is, I am a spiritual man and I've been happily married for 21 years. I don't even know what a condom is anymore.