One must have a big nose to be able to smell something.
Professional soccer is not a social office.
An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.
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.
Don’t let what you can’t do get in the way of what you can.
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
There are too many factors you have to take into account that you have no control over. The most important factor you can keep in your own hands is yourself. I always placed the greatest emphasis on that.
Use your success, wealth and influence to put them in the best position to realize their own dreams and find their true purpose.
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.
They are the second best team in the world and there is no greater praise than this.
Set the bar high for your goals and don’t stop until you get there.
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.
Cyclists live with pain. If you can’t handle it you will win nothing.
He treats the bike like an old mean bitch that deserves it.
Your most difficult opponent is not the one facing you. Human nature, on the other hand, is.
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.
The winner blames himself. The loser blames others.
It doesn’t get any easier, you just get faster.
Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.
If you can’t outplay them, you have to outfight them.
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.
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.
Whoever said “it’s not just about winning” probably said it after losing.
If you worried about falling off the bike, you’d never get on.
All footballers are motivated by money – those who say otherwise are lying.