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

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.

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.

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.

I was always active – I went from baseball to football. I didn’t have time to work out.

I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will – that’s just the bottom line.

At a football club, there’s a holy trinity – the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don’t come into it. They are only there to sign the checks.

What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

I have been received more warmly by Everton than I have by Liverpool. It is scandalous that I should have to write these things about the club that I helped build into what it is today.

If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.

Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.