Football is a fairly simple sport. 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and in the end the Germans win!
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.
I have never made a prediction, nor will I ever do so.
I think it was a really bad team they had assembled. I could not see what the party monkey and the toad face would help John Faxe Jensen with.
If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.
Sören Åkeby gets standing ovations when he says at a press conference that AGF will be Danish champions in three years, and there is not a single one who asks if he is raving insane.
One man can be crucial to a team, but one man cannot make a whole team.
It’s different from being 21 and you think there’s endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.
There are many ways to motivate yourself to reach a higher level. Write about it, dream about it. But once you’ve done that – make it happen. Don’t settle for dreaming.
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.
One must have a big nose to be able to smell something.
Ride as much or as little, or as long or as short as you feel. But ride.
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.
If you brake, you don’t win.
Isn’t it great to see so many men in bike shorts?
Champions play until they reach their goal.
There are some who claim that football is a matter of life and death. It’s an attitude that disappoints me. I can assure you that football is much more than that!
He treats the bike like an old mean bitch that deserves it.
Virenque is riding. He (Aldag, ed.) stands perfectly still. He stands still as a German tree in the Harz.
I like Danish humour – I just wish you had more of it.
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
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
Hard work is more important than talent when talent does not want to work hard.
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.
Use your success, wealth and influence to put them in the best position to realize their own dreams and find their true purpose.