“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.”

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.

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.

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.

True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.

The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.

Art… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.

I shall show that the place does not honor the man, but the man the place.

Every ruler must remember three things. Firstly, that he rules man; secondly, that he rules according to law, and thirdly, that he does not rule for ever.

If the present civilisation does not acquire some stable moral fondations (“bases morales stables”, Fr.), its existence will hardly be more assured than that of the civilisations that have preceeded it, and which have fallen (or collapse, or failed).

To be complex does not mean to be fragmented.

One attacks those who possess things that one does not possess. The attack is all the more savage because the one who attacks is destitute and the one who is attacked is well provided.