If a team lives up to its role as favorite, it will have earned the World Cup. By the way, Adidas grew by about 30 percent in Brazil even without sponsoring the national team.

Fans today don't only care about achievement, but about good looks, good public appearance and good lifestyle.

If you want to bring the people of this world together, you have to be willing to engage with countries that do not share our [western] democratic values.

My commitment to the Olympics is not a political commitment. It's not a commitment to any particular social system or cultural idea. It is a commitment to sport.

One man suffers to save many.

We are in love, in the very beginning part of it, when you don't ever want to separate your body from the other person's.

Perfect, faultless, in ruins, yes, but perfect, nevertheless.

There's no use in doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.

Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Though Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed.

I don't like going out. I hate clubs. I hate being around too many people. I love my home and staying in bed and watching Dancing With the Stars or reading a Danielle Steel novel. I'm kind of boring.

It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees.

At times during high school and college I wished to be a sportswriter.

A soldier when aged is not appreciated; the love of an old man sickens.

Rock'n'roll saved my soul.