George Weah Quotes

#1. It can't be Sunday every day. There are also Mondays and Tuesdays.

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#2. I ask Liberians to pray so that God will bring peace and stability, and bring about unification to ourselves.

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#3. The whole thing about elections in Liberia - it's not about the way you take care of people, it's not about the heart, it's about education, according to the perception of some people.

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#4. I am always successful in my work.

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#5. I am the elected president of Liberia, not Ellen Sirleaf. They stole my victory, and I am here to say loud and clear that I am the winner of the elections.

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#6. I believe education should be a right for every child, but tragically in many parts of world it is a privilege for certain children whose parents have money. There are 72 million children in the world who don't go to school and many of them are in Africa.

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#7. I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

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#8. In America there is a public library in every community. How many public libraries are there in Africa? Every day there are new books coming out and new ideas being discussed. But these new books and ideas don't reach Africa and we are being left behind.

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#9. Education is a continual process, it's like a bicycle ... If you don't pedal you don't go forward.

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#10. They say I do not have the qualifications to be president, that I do not have education. Well, I would never divide the Liberian people.

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#11. Once you take care of people, people respect you.

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#12. When I was growing up in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, I sold doughnuts, popcorn and Kool Aid every day after school so that my family had some money and I could pay my school fees. It was a tough life.

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#13. I will do nothing for 89 minutes, but score in the 90th.

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#14. I know I have a successful career, a successful life. If I sit and say, 'Look, I have a comfortable life,' and I ... just think about myself, I don't think that would be fair. That would be very selfish. Because everything I do in my life is to benefit my people.

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#15. I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country.

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#16. My father died when I was young and I was raised by my grandmother, Emma Klonjlaleh Brown. We could afford to eat chicken just once a year, on Christmas.

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#17. Around 80% of Liberians are unemployed and only half of all children go to primary school. Just one in 20 go on to secondary school. Young children are on the streets instead of in the classrooms. We are not giving them the opportunity to learn and they will struggle to get jobs when they grow up.

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#18. My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

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#19. My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.

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#20. I have proven to the world that I am articulate, I am very intelligent, I'm well exposed.

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#21. If I say I am not a politician, it is because I did not go to school to do political science. But at the end of the day, I think we are all born politicians. It's practical. All you gotta do is practice.

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