Franz Beckenbauer famous quotes

03-18-2025

Since Sven Goran Eriksson took over, England have been fantastic.
-- Franz Beckenbauer

#England #Fantastic
Football is one of the world's best means of communication. It is impartial, apolitical and universal. Football unites people around the world every day. Young or old, players or fans, rich or poor, the game makes everyone equal, stirs the imagination, makes people happy and makes them sad
-- Franz Beckenbauer

#Football #Communication #Mean
We should not compare humans to God, but Messi is a godly player.
-- Franz Beckenbauer

#Godly #Player #Messi
He shouldn't have resigned over that game. It was not a bad performance; in fact it was quite a good one for England. I would not have resigned under those circumstances.
-- Franz Beckenbauer

#Soccer #Football #Games
It's quite possible that Beckham suffers from a mental block at big tournaments
-- Franz Beckenbauer

#Block #Suffering #Quitting
George Best was one of the most talented players of all time and probably the best footballer who never made it to a major world final.
-- Franz Beckenbauer

#Player #Finals #World
As someone who played a team sport, I feel a bit uncomfortable being ranked as an individual so high
-- Franz Beckenbauer

#Sports #Team #Individual
We are the last remaining country to allow ourselves two breaks in the season. You just have to look at England, Italy and Spain, they play right through the season. We on the other hand take six weeks off in the winter until the end of January, and that is a luxury.
-- Franz Beckenbauer

#Country #Winter #Hands
The Olympic stadium may have been built only in the early 1970s but it was clear for a long time it had no future. For many reasons it is not good enough for modern football and today's fans.
-- Franz Beckenbauer

#Football #Long #Not Good Enough
Sometimes, in the dressing room, I think I am in Hollywood,
-- Franz Beckenbauer

#Thinking #Hollywood #Rooms
At the World Cup and even now at the Confederations Cup, our security provisions will ensure the greatest level of protection possible for all those participating - both inside and outside the stadiums.
-- Franz Beckenbauer

#World #Levels #Cups
The most important thing however is the money. What use would it be to us, to have a a mighty stadium but a useless team, because we couldn't afford anything better?
-- Franz Beckenbauer

#Team #Important #Use
Messi is a genius. He has everything. When I watch him, I see a player who is very, very, skilful, very clever and his left foot is like Diego Maradona's.
-- Franz Beckenbauer

#Clever #Player #Feet
It would make me a lot happier if I could meet up again next year with as many friends as possible from all over the world who I've met during my career. That's where the great opportunity lies, for me personally, in our role as World Cup host.
-- Franz Beckenbauer

#Lying #Opportunity #Years
Possession means nothing when the opponent takes its chances
-- Franz Beckenbauer

#Mean #Opponents #Chance
The one whoâ€™s really, really impressed me is Benedikt HÃ¶wedes because heâ€™s playing out of position. Heâ€™s never played at left back before in his life but heâ€™s having a first-rate World Cup. So, the most astonishing player for me is HÃ¶wedes.
-- Franz Beckenbauer

#Player #World #Cups
The trouble for today's footballers is they have too many distractions. We used to get our old players coming to watch training with football magazines in their hands. Now, more often than not, they are checking the share prices.
-- Franz Beckenbauer

#Football #Player #Hands
The World Cup tournament overall and, naturally, the new stadiums at its heart, are the ideal platform to portray Germany as a positive and exceptional location, and above all of course, as a highly capable economic location.
-- Franz Beckenbauer

#Heart #World #Location
The Netherlands have great strikers... but they are only playing one. They are depriving themselves of their best qualities and shooting themselves in the foot.
-- Franz Beckenbauer

#Feet #Quality #Shooting
For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being.
-- Franz Beckenbauer

#Basketball #Years #Play
It is not the strong one that wins, the one that wins is strong.
-- Franz Beckenbauer

#Strong #Winning

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