Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.

Unfortunately justice is the train that's nearly always late.

True sport is always a duel, a duel with nature, with one's own fear, with one's own fatigue, a duel in which the body and the mind are strengthened.

When there is freedom of speech, I've found that the majority of people really have nothing to say.

Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.

I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.

One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.