Considerable research on successful soccer players and their developmental history, affirms that a good percentage of them have spent time in isolation, working on soccer skills.

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do

Success isn't determined by how many times you win, but by how you play the week after you lose.

Football is the only sport where you put people together, it doesn't matter if you are rich, or poor, or black, or white. It is one nation. This is the beauty of football.

The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.

There is always someone out there getting better than you by training harder than you.

A team is not made up of isolated individuals. Always stay in the game. Don't be passive. Football is a team game. No one plays alone. Success depends on your whole team being a single unit.

Great teams are not made up of many well-rounded players. Great teams are made up of a variety of players, each having their own strengths.

The head talks to the heart and the heart talks to the feet.

Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.

I was born to play football, just like Beethoven was born to write music and Michelangelo was born to paint.

The seeking face that will not alter when presented with reason, must delight in its wearer's prideful ignorance.

There is no chance for old fools.

A great teacher who is full of excitement and love for her students can make all the difference in their lives.

I have two sons in America, and all they care about in Chinese culture is Jackie Chan and Jet Li.

In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural.

Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.

We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.

All you need is a laptop or a PC and an Internet connection and you can pretty much do almost anything and create almost any type of company.

An [officer] is still a human being. When that fear kicks in, you never know what can happen.

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