"Failure is a necessary part of success."

“People nowadays are obsessed with golden awards, about who is the best — when we know in reality the one with more money wins.”

“Do you know how many rules there are in football? … There are 17 rules. That's it. Everyone talks about football and nobody remembers this simple fact.”

“Ball is made of leather, leather comes from cows, cows eat grass, and there is where the ball must be.”

“It has changed a bit, of course. The speed and all that. But let me tell you something: in the olden times, let's say the year, I don't know, in the Sixties for instance, we would eat a plate of spaghetti and run out onto the pitch. Then people started saying 'they're too full', meaning you'd get bloated like a pig if you ate spaghetti. But this shows you those guys were clever because nowadays all the medical experts recommend pasta for athletes and footballers because you digest it slowly.”

“I've always been a team player, that's all. One for all and all for one.”

“I was a forward, and one of the obligations of a forward is to score goals.”