You can beat 40 scholars with one fact, but you cannot beat one idiot with 40 facts.
I am a trained teacher. But apparently not good at pedagogy
The beauty in being blessed with talent is rising above doubters to create a beautiful moment.
Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.
You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.
Stay away from negative people, they have a problem for every solution
Suicide is never the answer. You must outlive your enemies.
My uncle always said: There are two kinds of music: country and western.
I don’t trust anyone who’s nice to me but rude to the waiter. Because they would treat me the same way if I were in that position.
The top of it all is then, I really wished him (Solbakken, ed.) To get that victory goal made and piss on those farmers. And I want to be allowed to say “piss on those farmers” because those spectators do not deserve another name.
When I die, I want to go to sleep peacefully like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror, like the passengers in his car.
I have no vices only desires.
If you only want to see dog shit, then there is dog shit.
I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I’m like, ‘My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don’t have it. I just want to chill.’ We all have self-doubt. You don’t deny it, but you also don’t capitulate to it. You embrace it.
My family is so poor that we combined my father’s funeral with my 50th birthday.
An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.
All footballers are motivated by money – those who say otherwise are lying.
My old, wise father once said: Freedom of speech is a right to write and speak, not a duty! But of course: Freedom of speech is by its nature unlimited, and it applies to everyone, even the stupid and provocative.
I have an agreement with Lilholt and Olsen that we always play a Dalton song when we’re out on a solo tour, as it costs 280 kroner in Koda tax. It’s not much, but for them it’s a lot.
Only women, children, and dogs are loved unconditionally. A man is only loved under the condition he provides something.
Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
Life isn’t perfect but your outfit can be.
Life is like a game of chess. I don’t know how to play chess.
Maybe it should have changed me more [to become a mother, ed.]. I sometimes wonder if I was at home enough with my children, but it’s no use now, because it can’t be helped. They have survived.
There is always a bigger fish.