We were told before the game that the entire nation was watching. I said, good - then they will see us win.

Football is not about the legs. It's about the head and heart.

Go, stranger, and tell the Lacedaemonians that here we lie, obedient to their commands.

-- The Spartan king who led 300 warriors in a suicidal last stand at Thermopylae

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.

-- Charles Dickens

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

-- Oscar Wilde

Is the goalkeeper aware that I am Garrincha?

-- Born in Pau Grande, Rio de Janeiro state in 1933, Garrincha bewildered defenders with his naturally curved legs and became known as the 'Joy of the People.' He

Playing football is very simple, but playing simple football is the hardest thing there is.

-- Born in Amsterdam in 1947

My business is hurting people.

-- Born in Detroit, Michigan in 1921, Sugar Ray Robinson