“Remember I’ve seen a video tape of a Scotland-England match and I’ve seen him miss a chance from five yards. It was against England and he couldn’t score. So what does that say?”

Success is not winning the World Cup. It may be a goal in your mind but success is having a team that is improving all the time.

You need players that stand for emotion in football. Football today is a game for television.

Without a healthy team spirit you won’t get anywhere in football.

First of all, it would be great for world football to have a competitive Chinese team as China traditionally has deep relation to sports in general.

If I walked on water, my accusers would say it is because I can’t swim.

Football is my life. I guess I can’t live without it.

Sex before the game? No problem. But I won’t allow it at half-time

You need experience around you when you are a young player. You need to know how to run a team, to lead a team and to play as a team which means, your team has leaders but you still function as a team.

Football is a game that fascinates people around the World like nothing else.

I think in China, they know you have to have a solid nationwide plan. It does not help to have a football hotspot in the north or the south.

China has great potentials; the people are hard-working and focused. But they have to close the gap as far as the pace of the game is concerned. Football in the future will get faster and faster.

To implement a new sport aside your tradition takes time. You definitely need a strategy for the entire country. You need highly qualified coaches for all regions that work with the same concept.

If you have team spirit you can even beat better teams. As far as team sport is concerned China might need a change in attitude in comparison to the one in table tennis.

Being successful means good results for the national team at first in the regional competitions like the Asian Cup and keeping in mind to go for Gold at a World Cup in the future.

So it would be a good thing for Chinese parents to instill enthusiasm among their kids for football. It’s a great game, not only regarding the emotions behind it, but it’s also a game for young people to gain experience of working in a bigger group and work to achieve goals.

Whether it’s teaching me a new way to cut on a wave or teach me a three-point conversion or teach me how to dribble a soccer ball. There’s something really cool about that.

In general I like a guy who is athletic, somebody who can teach me something.

I sponsor two soccer teams in England, one of which is called Broadley F.C.

I was watching the Blackburn game on TV on Sunday when it flashed on the screen that George (Ndah) had scored in the first minute at Birmingham.

There are soccer athletes that are known the world over except in the U.S. Thierry Henry, for example.

I sponsored every team in the Park Slope Little League for years.

I’m a big soccer fanatic, and although I support a team called Tottenham Hotspur in London –

I don’t like soccer. I think it makes you soft. And by the way, you telling me it’s the biggest whatever in the World, look, they drink tea everywhere too; they’re pussies, you understand? I want some coffee.