I heard the South African 'keeper had been killed and I thought it was probably one of their former goalkeepers, but when I confirmed it was Senzo Meyiwa, I was shattered.

People don't have to believe in you for you to succeed. Just work hard, when you succeed, they will believe.

Every game is very difficult, no game is easy. All games are hard, but just different. So we just have to get ourselves prepared for every particular match because of the intensity and so on.

Our audacity to rise from our losses makes Nigeria the number one footballing nation in Africa!

Who are we to ask God if it is his will.

I remember when Samuel Okwaraji died on the field, I was mute and I didn't even know what I was doing or what I was saying.

My future does not depend on me but on any decision by the Togo federation.

Senzo Meyiwa was just a young kid and was already becoming one of the best goalkeepers in Africa.

I felt sorry for Senzo Meyiwa family and for the people of South Africa because it's a shame we lost such a huge talent. In all the games he had played I think he didn't concede any goal.

If you lose, it's the coach's fault and if you win, the players are credible, they are indispensable, so whatever happens it's going to be the coach.

There is a point in the imagination of a creative man when the wrong thing is correct almost simply because it is wrong.

Loyalty never put blood back in a man's veins.

Disorder makes me feel at ease if I'm alone, embarrassed if I'm not.

Brave men are a city's strongest tower of defence.

But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors of this generation think and say so.

Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think

I derive a tremendous amount of pride in developing places that everyday people can experience. I like to create beauty in everyday lives.

Most of the nations around the world are led by tyrants and dictators and thugs who are leading their countries for one reason.

Neither the depth of despondency nor the height of euphoria tells you how long either will last.

Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making.