"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."

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Franz Beckenbauer

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“Everybody in America is going to have to sacrifice to help us rebuild the Gulf Coast. Every government program, every individual, we are all going to have to sacrifice”
“It's nowhere near as intense as what I imagine an actor experiences backstage, but I feel a fluttering nervousness before a curtain goes up on a play. I mean, any play, anywhere - on Broadway or the Bowery or in a church basement.”
“The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.”
“Every effort to confine Americanism to a single pattern, to constrain it to a single formula, is disloyalty to everything that is valid in Americanism.”

Source : "Who is Loyal to America?". "Harper's Magazine", Vol. 195, No. 1168, 1947.
“You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.”
“I took some lessons as a kid but trained myself by ear. I did it the way jazz musicians used to learn years ago, which is to play records and slow them down to figure out the notes. At first I tried to imitate Red Garland, who was my favorite jazz pianist.”
“Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.”
“In all "benedictions", be they expressing plea or thanksgiving, we affirm that God is the "source" of every bounty we enjoy and of every favour we seek.”

Source : "The Authorised Daily Prayer Book" by Immanuel Jakobovits, Centenary Edition, (p. 12), 1990.

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