Franz Beckenbauer Quotes

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• For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being.
• The Netherlands have great strikers... but they are only playing one. They are depriving themselves of their best qualities and shooting themselves in the foot.
• The World Cup tournament overall and, naturally, the new stadiums at its heart, are the ideal platform to portray Germany as a positive and exceptional…
• The trouble for today's footballers is they have too many distractions. We used to get our old players coming to watch training with football magazines…
• Since Sven Goran Eriksson took over, England have been fantastic.
• The one who’s really, really impressed me is Benedikt Höwedes because he’s playing out of position. He’s never played at left back before in his…
• Possession means nothing when the opponent takes its chances
• Football is one of the world's best means of communication. It is impartial, apolitical and universal. Football unites people around the world every day. Young…
• It would make me a lot happier if I could meet up again next year with as many friends as possible from all over the…
• Messi is a genius. He has everything. When I watch him, I see a player who is very, very, skilful, very clever and his left…
• The most important thing however is the money. What use would it be to us, to have a a mighty stadium but a useless team,…
• At the World Cup and even now at the Confederations Cup, our security provisions will ensure the greatest level of protection possible for all those…
• Sometimes, in the dressing room, I think I am in Hollywood,
• The Olympic stadium may have been built only in the early 1970s but it was clear for a long time it had no future. For…
• We are the last remaining country to allow ourselves two breaks in the season. You just have to look at England, Italy and Spain, they…
• George Best was one of the most talented players of all time and probably the best footballer who never made it to a major world…
• It's quite possible that Beckham suffers from a mental block at big tournaments
• As someone who played a team sport, I feel a bit uncomfortable being ranked as an individual so high
• It is not the strong one that wins, the one that wins is strong.
• In the World Cup, much depends for every team on how it develops during the tournament. There are always rising tensions. They come from within,…

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