We had a good team on paper. Unfortunately, the game was played on grass.
There may be people with more talent than you, but there is no excuse not to work harder than you already do.
Don’t let what you can’t do get in the way of what you can.
All footballers are motivated by money – those who say otherwise are lying.
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.
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.
When I go to bed at night, I hope they are gone the next morning, but they are still there the next morning.
I have never made a prediction, nor will I ever do so.
Haters are a good problem to have. Nobody hates the good ones. They hate the great ones.
We must screw down the expectations. We have to change our tactics and play with long balls
His shiny ice flashes like the sword of Athens in the setting French evening sun.
A true master stands up when he cannot.
An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.
I am a trained teacher. But apparently not good at pedagogy
An ordinary Sunday
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.
Ride as much or as little, or as long or as short as you feel. But ride.
Cyclists live with pain. If you can’t handle it you will win nothing.
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.
I will not promise to make history. But nothing is impossible.
I would like to play for an Italian club, such as Barcelona.
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.
Shut up it was blowing out there and there was also a Spaniard who did not have learned that with not pissing against the wind. So he pissed and I got his piss on my leg. So I was not entirely happy with that.
It’s not over until it’s over.
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.