The World Cup is a very complicated tournament - six games, seven if you make it to the final - and maybe if you lose one game you're out, even if you're the best.

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.

I'll never love you anymore than I do, right this second. And I'll never love you any less than Ido, right this second.

Start each action with overwhelming positivity enthusiasm and each action will be overwhelmingly successful.

Anger has a way of seeping into every other emotion and planting itself in there.

I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example.

If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like material that came into being on the planet.

It is the "try" that is more often counted for righteousness and not the success or failure.

There is no sudden entrance into Heaven. Slow is the ascent by the path of Love.

I think English people were a lot better at breakdancing than they were at making records.

In the film industry, all the money is focused on television and the stupidity of American cinema.

Every old sock meets an old shoe