The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.
An ordinary Sunday
As long as I breathe, I attack.
If you worried about falling off the bike, you’d never get on.
One man can be crucial to a team, but one man cannot make a whole team.
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!
Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
All footballers are motivated by money – those who say otherwise are lying.
Trust me, setting things up right from the beginning will avoid a ton of tears and heartache.
Football is a fairly simple sport. 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and in the end the Germans win!
They are the second best team in the world and there is no greater praise than this.
If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.
The bicycle has a soul. If you succeed to love it, it will give you emotions that you will never forget.
Shut up legs
We did not underestimate them. They were just so much better than we expected.
Once you know what failure feels like, determination chases success.
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.
Don’t let what you can’t do get in the way of what you can.
He treats the bike like an old mean bitch that deserves it.
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.
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.
Sportsmanship for me is when a player leaves the field and you can’t tell if the player has won or lost. When the player exudes pride regardless of the result.
Brøndby is a good municipal brand. Now they just need to become a good football brand.
They say cristiano ronaldo scores only against small teams? That’s true because there’s no bigger team than Real Madrid.
If you can’t outplay them, you have to outfight them.