Football is something like war. Whoever behaves too properly, is lost.

My position is this – street soccer is the most natural educational system that can be found

Football is business and business is business.

To succeed means you to sail across some difficult courses.

The sky inside my head never turns blue. It if forced to stay red. By the demon, who is yellow inside me.

During my youth, the idea of moving from Lebanon was unthinkable. Then I began to realise I might have to go, like my grandfather, uncles and others who left for America, Egypt, Australia, Cuba.

Your attitude is more important than stylish clothes. This comes from believing in yourself. This attitude can define your life.

Do the work you are most proud of

I know and share the many sorrows a human being can experience, but I do not cling to them; they pass through me, like life itself, as a broad eternal stream...and life continues.

What is learned out of hard work and trial is inevitably more powerful than what is learned easily.

Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.

My one concession to American sensibilities was to remove my nail polish.

I think that most New Yorkers would object to calling me a New Yorker. I didn't grow up here.