A minute of success pays for years of failure.
I was so obsessed with football that you could say I was taking the goal home with me at night. And then one day the system fell apart.
If we perform as a unit and if every single player gives it his very best, everything can happen.
I think Neuer changed the game of goalkeeping in the World Cup.
Goalkeepers Need an Element of Insanity.
The goalkeeper plays in a psychological position, and he's dealing with mental things. I wanted to describe the things I've done wrong and, most of all, what I've done right, so that other people, including those in other professions, could learn from my experiences.
It took me a long time to realize that football isn't martyrdom, but a game that's enjoyable, and one in which getting better at it is supposed to be fun. Perhaps it would have been better if I had understood this as a young man.
The same people who never did their homework in high school are still doing that to this very day out in the real world.
Uncovering your real desires can be terrifying. It can also set you spectacularly free.
Revolution is an awakening, so is the spring! Spring is an awakening, so is the revolution!
Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to the sublime Oscar Wilde, who was right about everything. He also told us that all bad poetry is sincere. Had I the power to do so, I would command that these words be engraved above every gate at every university, so that each student might ponder the splendor of the insight.