It was with a homosexual, I was barely 14 years old. But let's be fair, I wasn't the only one who did it. He was a man in Bauru that all our team visited.

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.

Someone who lives meaningfully for 30 years has lived a much longer Life than one who drifted through Life for 60 years.-RVM

You know that person on your left shoulder who tells you that you can't do it or that you're not good enough? Tell that person to GET LOST!

I'm a pretty patient guy when it's something worth waiting for.

Everything we do and think has consequences and everything is connected by this web and has a meaning. When we touch the web on one side of the world, it ripples through it to the other - and so on.

Nothing would more effectively further the development of education than for all flogging pedagogues to learn to educate with the head instead of with the hand.

The man who respects a woman does not know what else to do with her.

When we brand things, our brains perceive them as more special and valuable than they actually are.

I do feel, in my dreamings and yearnings, so undiscovered by those who are able to help me.

We must remember that everything is ordinary and extraordinary. It is our minds that either open or close.

My name is Death: the last best friend am I.