Instead of buying your children all the things you never had, you should teach them all the things you were never taught. Material wears out but knowledge stays.
Ride as much or as little, or as long or as short as you feel. But ride.
Love is like a fart. If you have to force it, itøs probably crap.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Professional soccer is not a social office.
Hard work is more important than talent when talent does not want to work hard.
My family is so poor that we combined my father’s funeral with my 50th birthday.
We did not underestimate them. They were just so much better than we expected.
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.
Picking your nose does not make you a bad person. It is what you do afterward that defines you.
If i ever let my head down it will be just to admire my shoes
An ordinary Sunday
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.
A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. This is where the rich use public transport.
When I die, I want to go to sleep peacefully like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror, like the passengers in his car.
Life is like a game of chess. I don’t know how to play chess.
Never underestimate the power of a good outfit on a bad day.
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
Shut up legs
If the heroes run and hide, who will stay and fight?
Elegance is not about being noticed, it’s about being remembered.
Whoever said “Out of sight, out of mind” never had a spider disappear in their bedroom.
Age is not an obstacle. It is a limitation you impose on your mind.
If a man says you’re ugly, he’s just mean. If a woman says you’re ugly, she’s just jealous. If a kid says you’re ugly, you’re ugly.
Throughout my life, the message and teachings of Christ have been my guide and in them I find hope. It is my heartfelt prayer that you will continue to be sustained by your faith in times of trial and encouraged by hope in times of despair.