Why is it good for football to take the excitement away from fans by overcharging them for tickets to see their team?

FIFA stands for discipline, respect, fair-play, not just on the field of play, but in our society as well.

What I am most proud of is the legacy of hope that FIFA and football leaves around the world. It makes all of the efforts and energy I pour into this job worth it.

Fifa cannot sit by and see greed rule the football world. Nor shall we.

We shall wonder if one day our game is played on another planet? Why not? Then we will have not only a World Cup we will have inter-planetary competitions.

We cannot allow the reputation of football and FIFA to be dragged through the mud any longer.

Racism and discrimination of any kind have no place in football.

Football is hope. To be a better human being but also hope one day, one day, to leave your country to be somewhere, let's say admired, as a football star.

It's up to the national associations and their leagues to limit the entry of foreign players.

It is very important that football can see beyond religion but FIFA does not just ignore its impact.

When you go into extra time, we're talking about drama. But when we reach the penalty shootout, it's a tragedy.

As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate.

Sometimes the heart speaks, and the brain does not understand the language.

Some achieve greatness through people who lift them higher. Others find it when they have to stand alone.

The dog always dies. Go to the library and pick out a book with an award sticker and a dog on the cover. Trust me, that dog is going down.

I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.

An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.

It's one thing to make peace with the idea of something that's going to happen someday; it's another to find yourself at that day.

You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends