You should always take women so beautiful that you can get rid of them again.
We do two shows a night for five weeks. A lotta times we’ll go upstairs and sing until daylight – gospel songs. We grew up with it…It more or less puts your mind at ease. It does mine.
Bad publicity is better than no publicity at all
I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the wind.
Elegance is not about being noticed, it’s about being remembered.
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
I’ve never worried about my color. I never had the black thing. If the whole world was like this, maybe there would be more harmony and love. Maybe it is. I don’t have a problem with being black in a white country or being with my people.
If you train hard, you not only become hard yourself, you also become hard to overcome.
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!
I’m not wise, but the beginnings of wisdom are there; it’s like relaxing into – and accepting – things.
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.
My family is so poor that we combined my father’s funeral with my 50th birthday.
I will not promise to make history. But nothing is impossible.
When I was a child, ladies and gentlemen, I was a dreamer. I read comic books and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I ever dreamed has come true a hundred times…I learned very early in life that: ‘Without a song, the day would never end; without a song, a man ain’t got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend – without a song.’ So I keep singing a song. Goodnight. Thank you.
Isn’t it great to see so many men in bike shorts?
The longer I stay at home, the more homeless I look.
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 are only as happy as your least happy child-
Too much learning can crack even the freshest!
The more I practice – the luckier I am.
One man can be crucial to a team, but one man cannot make a whole team.
A good breakfast can save the day.
My career always took me away from home, I was always away from home and I just wanted to be home.
The one who comes first to the mill gets milled first
I’m called the poorest president, but I do not feel poor. Poor people are those who only work to try an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more.