There have only been two world-class goalkeepers. One was Lev Yashin, the other was the German boy who played for Manchester City.

What kind of a goalkeeper is the one who is not tormented by the goal he has allowed? He must be tormented! And if he is calm, that means the end. No matter what he had in the past, he has no future.

I am not the best goalkeeper in the world, it is Vladimir Beara.

The trick is to smoke a cigarette to calm your nerves and then take a big swig of strong liquor to tone your muscles.

The joy of seeing Yuri Gagarin flying in space is only superseded by the joy of a good penalty save.

Where there is love there is life.

Silence is never an admission. We learn that in law school.

Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.

The first two months were painful and they really tested my manhood because there were times I didn’t want to get up because I was in pain. That willpower has to kick in.

The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.

Real success is making art your whole life.

Many people say that recovery from an aneurysm is like having a layer of skin ripped off - your experience of life is more intense.

My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people.

Good luck and bad luck are strands of the same rope.

No small thing, a bee's sting When it enters the heart Not so benign, the growing vine When it tears stone apart