"If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself."

"What is the system? It revolves around the banks, the system is built on the power of the banks, so it can be destroyed through the banks."

"I manage a team, for beach soccer. I'm the coach. Player, coach."

"Sometimes you surprise the goalkeeper and sometimes the goalkeeper surprises you. In my career, I tried to do more of the first than the second."

"I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked."

"Experience is the stern teacher that gives the examination before the lesson. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day."

"Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time."