Without the ball, you can't win.

Italians can not beat us, but we can certainly lose against them.

I don't want to be a thief of my own wallet.

Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.

I'm not religious. In Spain all 22 players make the sign of the cross before they enter the pitch. If it works all matches must therefore end in a draw.

Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster.

To win you have to score one more goal than your opponent.

Without the ball, you can't win.

Every disadvantage has its advantage.

Coincidence is logical.

You have got to shoot, otherwise you can't score.

Sometimes something's got to happen before something is going to happen.

I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago, and a flute.

I hope the business sense that artists like Jay-Z and Nelly are showing rubs off on the young players. I want somebody to stand up and say, Look, these kids got it going on. We want to be a part of them.

I am deeply spiritual; I revel in those things that make for good - the things that we can do to shed a little light, to help place an oft-dissonant universe back in tune with itself... Long live art, long live friendship, long live the joy of life!

I had a 'Cats' phase, where I did lots of overturned furniture and trash cans. I asked for a fog machine for my birthday.

Music is a beautiful thing to listen to. It is not a thing to preach to others about, it's not a cause. It is what it is-and that's a beautiful artform.

I understand football. I have always been a good footballer, and that gets overlooked by most people.

If government can give you rights, government can take them away from you.

There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

I'm an intensely competitive guy who is driven by the idea that accepting mediocrity or accepting defeat is not the way you succeed in life.

A guy that's really serious about you, he's gotta be talking to you, he's gotta want to have one-on-one, in-your-face interaction. That's how we are.

Thanksgiving Day is a jewel to set in the hearts of honest men but be careful that you do not take the day and leave out the gratitude.

Live interaction with a crowd is a cathartic, spiritual kind of exchange, and it's intensified at a festival.

I always like to sing barefoot, but when I first started doing these dates with the symphonies, I of course thought I should clean up my act, being a Jewish girl from Long Island with a little bit of a trucker mouth. So I wore a gown and some high heels.

Every government says they love small businesses, but what have they done for them? We should pull down all the barriers.

John Hawkes is amazing. I really want to meet that man; he's so good. Him and Ben Foster, and I'm a big fan of Nick Stahl - those are my three guys.

Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it.

As technology evolves, it manipulates our culture, and there's a huge opportunity to push ourselves further. I think it actually makes ourselves maybe more human, or at least human in a different way, that we can connect together in amazingly different ways and powerful new ways.

I said to my agent, 'I want short, sharp, well-paid jobs because I haven't got time for anything else.'

Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.

My favorite instrument is the snare drum. In Scotland, the snare drum is very prominent in Highland bands. The Scottish style of playing is in my blood. It's a very powerful instrument, but it can also be soothing, like velvet. It's a real challenge for composers.

Take courage. We walk in the wilderness today and in the Promised Land tomorrow.

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Whenever I do a book, I'm usually guided by a question or something that I'm trying to tease out.