Surviving the first round is never my aim. Ideally, I'd be in one group with Brazil, Argentina and Germany. Then I'd have lost two rivals after the first round. That's how I think. Idealisitic.

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.

Having devoted the first half of my life to the dark, I feel obliged to rever any pinpoint of light now.

It's just such a freeing thing to set these great challenges for yourself, to travel, to learn more about the world, to just go out there and get crazy and get free and get strong.

They say give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. But teach a man to fish and he'll get his own show on the Discovery Channel.

We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection is taken as a full-scale revolution.

Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.

During the past few years North East India has emerged as one of the biggest destinations for child trafficking.

Good people in the West have often failed to distinguish between Islam and Islamism.

The point is Obama didn't care that the jobs were leaving, folks!

Happy Valentine's day sir! Next year, happy anniversary na yan ha.

If someone is unpleasant to you, draw a halo around his or her head in your mind. He/she is an angel who came to teach you something.