Players today can only shoot with their laces. I could shoot with the inside, laces, and outside of both feet. In other words, I was six times better than today's players.

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.

We humans are so tortured by not properly guessing what will make us happy.

He looked like some plant bleached by darkness.

Evil is a disease able to spread from one person to another, as each convinces the other that might makes right, moral short-cuts are good things, and your enemies are not human but other

I love mayonnaise. Every birthday when I was a kid I'd go to Black Angus and just dip my burger in mayo.

Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.

I have a lot of empathy for women who fit their writing into the crevices of their too-busy lives, as I once did.

How desirable is this simplicity! Who will give it to me? I will quit all else; it is the pearl of great price.

Americans don't need a metaphor for war. We have war. If anything, we use war as a metaphor for sports.

We're seeing a decline in religion in North America but, I hope, a rise in individual spirituality. Whatever that means to people.

Assertiveness is not what you do, it's who you are!