Beckenbauer World Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. I wasn't obsessed by magic. People say, 'How you can you claim you practiced eight hours a day and weren't obsessed?' Well, people go to a job they don't even like for eight hours a day; it's not obsessive if it's something you like.

Ricky Jay

#4. Write so blazingly good that you can't be framed ... Write like a motherfucker.

Cheryl Strayed

#5. If television encouraged us to work as much as it encourages us to do everything else, we could better afford to buy more of everything it advertises.

Cullen Hightower

#6. The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.

William Cowper

#7. 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

#8. At the end of the day, if I can say that I had a career where I was able to play all different kinds of characters and I'm known as someone who is well-respected for my approach to the craft, that would be a beautiful life.

Adepero Oduye

#9. At any rate, I can only see such a success having positive effects for everyone, particularly as our anticipation of the World cup would only increase further.

Franz Beckenbauer

#10. Through the mind like an oyster labors on and on, / A grain of sand is all we have

Sylvia Plath

#11. Certainly it is a different world for players nowadays. But it depends on the individual.

Franz Beckenbauer

#12. To preach long, loud, and Damnation, is the way to be cried up. We love a man that damns us, and we run after him again to save us.

John Selden

#13. If you can make it so that I could touch somebody remotely through a wearable because it has haptic feedback - like, I could give a hug and it would touch you or pinch you - that would be killer.

Renee James

#14. Personal truth sets me free from fear for self. And Love is freedom from fear.

Marie Clair

#15. We should not fool ourselves. We are not one of the world's top teams any more.

Franz Beckenbauer

#16. My plan is to bring back like the Bracero Program (search) from 1944 that ran for 20 years where the Mexican government vets these people. I mean, they pay for it, and they get green cards, and they're actually legitimate. And then seal the border.

Kinky Friedman

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. In the World Cup, much depends for every team on how it develops during the tournament. There are always rising tensions. They come from within, and they come from the media.

Franz Beckenbauer

#20. We have a tendency to think of war as this quasi-mystical thing, and that interpretation flattens the experience - by using different perspectives, I wanted to open a place for readers to compare and contrast, to make judgments, to engage.

Phil Klay

#21. I am very optimistic, and I wish that God almighty grants me success to get a qualifying time. Only then can I go to the Olympics. If this happens I will be the first Palestinian athlete to gain a qualifying time. This will be a big achievement.

Nader Al-Masri

#22. Scientific reasoning is a kind of dialogue between the possible and the actual, between what might be and what is in fact the case.

Peter Medawar