I can’t relate to lazy people. We don’t speak the same language. I don’t understand you. I don’t want to understand you.
One man can be crucial to a team, but one man cannot make a whole team.
Ride as much or as little, or as long or as short as you feel. But ride.
I won! I won! I don’t have to go to school anymore.
When I get in the ring, I have no sympathy for my opponent. I am there to win.
We in FCK are always accused of being so damn arrogant, but the fact is that we are not nearly as arrogant as anyone else would have been in our shoes
You must never let your worst enemy get into your head.
Livingston wants to give it to Armstrong, but Armstrong would rather have it from behind by Hamilton.
Virenque is riding. He (Aldag, ed.) stands perfectly still. He stands still as a German tree in the Harz.
Now they just have to stop coming up with all sorts of weird ideas. You do not know what the next thing they think we should do is. Whether we’re going to run through fire or something. I sat and thought a bit about an idea one could give to them. Maybe the day after tomorrow or in a few days, they will do a stage where we do not know when there are goals. They say it is between 1 cm. and 300 km. and then all of a sudden it’s some man with a flag – maybe a dwarf. And then the stage is over.
They are some fools, excuse the expression, because they know the terms, and yet we must listen to the Norwegians’ pathetic statements every year. Many of us are fucking tired of that.
The more I practice – the luckier I am.
The beauty in being blessed with talent is rising above doubters to create a beautiful moment.
Many of the greatest talents are allowed to sloppy for training, and when I see the youth national team play, it strikes me that many of them are very focused on their hairstyles or Italian hair bands.
Once you know what failure feels like, determination chases success.
The Laudrup brothers have the same characteristics as the Heick family. They create a network of journalists around them – a slew of after-talkers who market them as mother-in-law’s dream.
Don’t buy upgrades, ride up grades.
Professional soccer is not a social office.
When I go to bed at night, I hope they are gone the next morning, but they are still there the next morning.
Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.
There may be people with more talent than you, but there is no excuse not to work harder than you already do.
Football is a fairly simple sport. 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and in the end the Germans win!
If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.
Age is not an obstacle. It is a limitation you impose on your mind.
If you worried about falling off the bike, you’d never get on.