The ball is like a woman, she loves to be caressed.
I stopped playing football because I'd done as much as I could. I needed something which was going to excite me as much as football had excited me.
You can feel very quickly as a prisoner of your past, of the memories.
The real fans of football come from the working class. Now they cannot afford to come and watch the game.
Being on stage isn't so tough compared to the football pitch.
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.