Footballers from the street are more important than trained coaches.

Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.

It is better to fail with your own vision than to fail with another man's vision.

Players that aren't true leaders but try to be, always bash other players after a mistake. True leaders on the pitch already assume others will make mistakes.

If you have the ball, you must make the field as big as possible, and if you don't have the ball, you must make it as small as possible.

Playing football is very simple, but playing simple football is the hardest thing there is.

There’s only one moment in which you can arrive in time. If you’re not there, you’re either too early or too late.

Every disadvantage has its advantage.

I'm ex-player, ex-technical director, ex-coach, ex-manager, ex-honorary president. A nice list that once again shows that everything comes to an end.

The difference between right and wrong is often not more than five metres.

Why couldn't you beat a richer club? I've never seen a bag of money score a goal.

What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart?

Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.

A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach it is philosophy without fear.

I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.

Political development should start at the grassroots.

I can't eat. I can never eat when I'm in the depths of despair.

Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.

A lot of people wrote that Roger (Maris) and I didn't like each other and that we didn't get along. Nothing could be further from the truth.

The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.

To be authentic is literally to be your own author... to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them.