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.
A woman with good shoes is never ugly.
How many cars do I have? Do I also have to count the Volvos?
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.
Never listen to girls on how to get girls. If you’re trying to catch fish you don’t ask another fish. You ask the Fisherman.
Never stop being a good person because of bad people.
Courage is knowing it might hurt, and doing it anyway.
Stupidity is the same.
And that’s why life is hard.
Ride as much or as little, or as long or as short as you feel. But ride.
Our modern world places such heavy demands on our time and attention that the need to remember our responsibilities to others is greater than ever.
I believe that if you just get up and go, life will open up to you.
Why do you see the splinter in your brother’s eye but don’t notice the beam in your own eye?
Football is a fairly simple sport. 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and in the end the Germans win!
Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak.
When I get in the ring, I have no sympathy for my opponent. I am there to win.
Well but, everything has an end, and an earthworm it has two.
It is better to have clean nails than soil between the ears.
I am a bourgeois, but I am not a Left-woman. I was born a bourgeois, and I have always tried not to stand on a pedestal and say that I am a worker. That would be false talk. Nor during the many years when the red hirelings were around and held their noses at the thought of “Matador” and everything else I did. I’m not a peasant either. I was born a bourgeois, but that is why I can criticise the bourgeoisie and their shabby schemes, which I can easily see through.
In a rich man’s house, there is no place to spit in his face.
People think my life has been hard, but I think it’s been a wonderful journey. The older you get, the more you realize that it’s not about what happens, but how you deal with it.
If it’s dancing, or anything else in life my darling, that matters to you, then don’t let anything or anyone stop you.
Life is too short to wear boring clothes.
If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.
You have to go through hell to be successful. There’s a reason the devil wears Prada.
It’s okay to be a little fucked up in the head. We all are. It’s only when you’re fucked up in the heart that makes you a piece of shit.
Wearing cheap clothes or driving an old car doesn’t make you broke. You got a family to feed not a community to impress.