Morality is probably the last thing one can learn from football.

I do not believe in a personal connection to God; that's where it gets transcendental.

I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well.

The image that I remember most of all is of the Fenerbahçe players storming into the stadium before kickoff. They were called the canaries because of their yellow jerseys. It was as if they, like canaries, were fluttering into the stadium out of a hole. I loved it. It was poetry.

Try to discover who I am from my choice of words and colors, as attentive people like yourselves might examine footprints to catch a thief.

Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.

...a nation could change its way of life, its history, its technology, its art, literature, and culture, but it would never have a real chance to change its gestures.