One must have a big nose to be able to smell something.
All I got from van Looy and his cronies was ridicule, not one piece of help or advice. They were very unfair, I was still just a naive young boy really. With Peugeot, and es[Simpson]pecially with Tom [Simpson], it was completely different.
You can change wives, politics, religion… but you can never, ever change your favorite football team.
One man can be crucial to a team, but one man cannot make a whole team.
Sportsmanship for me is when a player leaves the field and you can’t tell if the player has won or lost. When the player exudes pride regardless of the result.
As long as I breathe, I attack.
Brøndby is a good municipal brand. Now they just need to become a good football brand.
Use your success, wealth and influence to put them in the best position to realize their own dreams and find their true purpose.
Football is a fairly simple sport. 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and in the end the Germans win!
It doesn’t get any easier, you just get faster.
If you worried about falling off the bike, you’d never get on.
I don’t believe in motivating a team. I believe in preparing a team so that they know that they have the necessary confidence when they go on the pitch – and are therefore prepared to play a good game.
Today you can just show bare ass for ten seconds on TV, then you are world famous in Denmark. 25 years ago, it required much more starquality.
The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.
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.
When it’s hurting you that’s when you can make a difference.
Champions play until they reach their goal.
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I have never made a prediction, nor will I ever do so.
It’s different from being 21 and you think there’s endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.
If you are not ready to go all the way, why go anywhere at all.
Professional soccer is not a social office.
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.
Ride as much or as little, or as long or as short as you feel. But ride.
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.