To me, clothing is a form of self-expression – there are hints about who you are in what you wear.
You can beat 40 scholars with one fact, but you cannot beat one idiot with 40 facts.
Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
It’s – sorry my French – some damn nonsense. There are certainly also pig farmers and cattle farmers who go in clean boots and clothes. You will probably find most of them, so that is why it is nonsense.
If you live for weekends or vacations, your shit is broken.
There may be people with more talent than you, but there is no excuse not to work harder than you already do.
I hate all those weathermen who tell you that rain is bad weather. There’s no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothing, so get yourself a sexy raincoat and live a little.
If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.
It’s not over until it’s over.
And what happens when you go away? When life’s shirt gets too short? Where is the common thread? You have to become something!
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.
I’ve never gotten over what they call stagefright. I go through it every show. I’m pretty concerned, I’m pretty much thinking about the show. I never get completely comfortable with it, and I don’t let the people around me get comfortable with it, in that I remind them that it’s a new crowd out there, it’s a new audience, and they haven’t seen us before. So it’s got to be like the first time we go on.
What can you get for a dollar? You can get piss and paper
Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.
Those who have never made a mistake have never tried anything new.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Don’t prepare the path for the child, prepare the child for the path.
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.
Pain doesn’t tell you when you ought to stop. Pain is the little voice in your head that tries to hold you back because it knows if you continue you will change.
When I go to bed at night, I hope they are gone the next morning, but they are still there the next morning.
You won’t get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.
We did not underestimate them. They were just so much better than we expected.
You can change wives, politics, religion… but you can never, ever change your favorite football team.
I’m not where I want to be, but I’m proud I’m not where I used to be.
Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.