I used to dream about taking the ball ‚round the keeper, stopping it on the line, and then getting on my hands and knees and heading it into the net. When I scored against Benfica in the 1968 European Cup final, I nearly did it. I left the keeper for dead, but then I chickened out.

If you made me the national commissioner of football, I’d tell you one thing that I would mandate. The second Saturday in September, we’re going to have conference day. Everybody from the SEC plays a Big 12 team. Everybody from the Big Ten is going to play the ACC. Everybody from the Big East is going to play the Pac-10.

My songs are the door to every dream I’ve ever had and every success I’ve ever achieved.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

I hate letting my teammates down. I know I’m not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don’t feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win.

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

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.

I didn’t play soccer; I played that other football in grade school through college.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

Success is the child of audacity.

You must keep raising this game to higher and higher levels, as on the pool table – mastering eventually the psychological angles. Your playing is a pleasure, all the way to the end, to death, when the game is over.

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

I’m looking forward to the intensity of football and how the people live football in Liverpool. It’s a special club.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

One rule that will work if it is used everywhere, is that when you have a free-kick, the referee puts the mark on the floor to make sure the defenders keep their distance.

You can sometimes play some really good football and not score.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.

Football is a sad game.

The great thing about America is that you can come from the worst circumstances and become something remarkable.

Hope is a waking dream.

If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.

Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

We are going to transform Britain’s rail system from the worst in the world to the best. If you can do a few things like that, when the body gives out, you can say you’ve lived a good life.

You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It’s very real. It’s very strong.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

Our goal is not to build a platform; it’s to be cross all of them.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

When we have the ball, the other team has to run. The most important thing is for the players to be prepared to be a little bit wild.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

I do understand it’s not easy to run an I-league club. I have been part of many and I know the scene.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

All the top players in the world play 45-50-60 games. You need that many games, even the strikers need that many games.

It’s a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve.

You want to know whether we’re better off? I’ve got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!

I’m not the greatest; I’m the double greatest. Not only do I knock ‚em out, I pick the round.

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I’ve been called a great adventurer.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

I never dreamt, in my dream, I’m Dalai Lama.

I was a good football player, and I had a chance to play with some great players.

It’s not essential for me to have a big debut week; it’s not essential for me to have big radio records.

Without failure there is no achievement.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned.

I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you’ve got people just streaming up the mountain – well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

Winning the title in England is the biggest challenge of them all.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

What if nothing exists and we’re all in somebody’s dream?

Among physicists, I’m respected I hope.

Just like every person who works for Dortmund is a fan of the club, it was the same at Mainz. When I was a player there, we had 800 supporters on rainy Saturday afternoons, and if we died, no one would notice or come to our funeral. But we loved the club, and we have this same feeling at Dortmund.

At the heart of every being lies creation’s dream of a principle that will one day give organic form to its fragmented treasures. God is unity.