“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.”

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.

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?

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.

You never know how long Federer is going to play, but in my opinion he has at least one or two more grand slams to win. It depends how long he stays motivated. For me, he is the greatest player to ever play the game.

Tennis is a traditional game. A big sport like tennis does not need too many changes. The game has become too fast, there are hardly any long, interesting rallies these days. So maybe slowing down the courts could help. But you can’t really stop a sport from evolving.

The white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States.

I don’t like hockey. I’m just good at it.

What cracks me up is people who think I don’t take baseball seriously. It’s the most important thing in my life. They don’t know how hard it is for me to get a bad game out of my mind. I still can’t, but I’m getting better.

I don’t spend a lot of time here in New York. I didn’t realize there were so many Bruins fans in New York.

I don’t recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head.

What really matters in a workplace, what helps an employer if you’ve got a unionised workforce is if your shop stewards know the rules of the game, if your safety reps are taught to be able to examine situations to make sure the workplace is more safety.