Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married, or own a house, as if life was some kind of grocery list. But no one ever asks you if you are happy.
When I get in the ring, I have no sympathy for my opponent. I am there to win.
The winner blames himself. The loser blames others.
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.
When my parents went to Knoxville for work, I stayed with my dad’s mom. She was strict – the type to stiffen up and iron dresses. I had to sit more than I played. Oh, I was miserable. I liked being out with the animals. I entered the house with my hair pulled out, the ribbon off my dress, dirty as heck. I always got spanked.
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!
The 4 day work week is inevitable within our time.
If you brake, you don’t win.
When you get as old as I am and no longer have a husband or dog, and the children have long since left home, you can sit and get a little wiser by thinking. Then it’s time to edit your memories and start looking at your life again. First come the regrets, then come the wrongs you’ve done, mistakes you’ve made – and all the things you can sit and brood over if you’re already in a bad mood. But you can also understand people and contexts in a new way.
life is like a box of chocolates you never know what you’re gonna get.
In a rain of dollar bills, anything can be done
You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to your inner self.
It’s worth remembering that it is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change.
In this house, I’m not famous. Because the dog doesn’t care. And my children hopefully appreciate me more for our regular interaction and conversations,
Til we meet again, may God bless you. Adios.
It has always been easy to hate and destroy. To build and to cherish is much more difficult.
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.
I wish I was a cow eating grass in a field. No rent. No job. No college. Just moo.
You must never let your worst enemy get into your head.
If you live for weekends or vacations, your shit is broken.
I won! I won! I don’t have to go to school anymore.
The women’s struggle today is an individual struggle (…) You can’t demand equal pay if you also want to have a long maternity leave, stay at home when they are sick and be there primarily for the children.
The hardest thing about doing good business is avoiding doing the bad ones.
Remember, when you point a finger at someone there are three more pointing back at you.
And what happens when you go away? When life’s shirt gets too short? Where is the common thread? You have to become something!