I didn't know the English were good at swimming. I have been in this country for 12 years and I haven't seen a swimming pool.

If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all.

When you look at people who are successful, you will find that they aren't the people who are motivated, but have consistency in their motivation.

To achieve great things you have first to believe it.

I'm not scared to spend money. If you go out with me one night, you will understand that.

Have Tottenham closed the gap on Arsenal? Last time I checked they were still 4 miles and 11 titles away

The biggest things in life have been achieved by people who, at the start, we would have judged crazy. And yet if they had not had these crazy ideas the world would have been more stupid.

Nobody has enough talent to live on talent alone. Even when you have talent, a life without work goes nowhere.

A football team is a like a beautiful woman, when you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful

I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art.

Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.

Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go to hell if you take a day off.

Some of us think we already know the answer. They are the people who close a book and never think about it again. To them, the story ends at the words 'The End' and that's that.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in itsvalue.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

As an actress people always tease me like: if there's anything you can do to make yourself unattractive you will do it.

I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.

Life is a daring adventure or nothing.

It's hard being on a new network, a smaller network.

God is not a genie in a bottle, and your wish is not His command. His command better be your wish.

Many badly needed goals, like fusion and cancer cure, would be achieved much sooner if we invested more.