If there is one thing in this planet that has the power to bind people it is soccer.

There is a constant struggle between good an evil in the world. It is up to good people to choose the right side

The Liberty Bell is "a very significant symbol for the entire democratic world."

I was not born with a hunger to be free, I was born free.

What we did was to try and exploit that spirit [the idea of giving], which was there even before I approached individual South Africans [to give to the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund]. I think we must start from that angle.

The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory of the entire African nation. I hoped then that life might offer me the opportunity to serve my people and make my own humble contribution to their freedom struggle.

I am fundamentally an optimist.