Hristo Quotes

#1. Most people probably assume that Hristo is a grumpy, stubborn guy ... That can't be further from the truth. He's a cheerful, candid person that never holds a grudge.

Michael Laudrup

#2. The last player I truly idolize ... No other footballer is more worthy of the number 10 shirt than him.
(on Maradona)

Hristo Stoichkov

#3. Savour life's pleasures in abundance

Ginger Sullivan

#4. And that's why I wrote the book, because our country really needs to understand, if people in this nation understood what our foreign policy is really about, what foreign aid is about, how our corporations work, where our tax money goes, I know we will demand change.

John Perkins

#5. I know him. He's a hot chilli pepper, just like me!
(on Valeri Bojinov)

Hristo Stoichkov

#6. Change without continuity is chaos. Continuity without change is sloth-and very risky.

Max De Pree

#7. Once they said they can only stop me with a pistol but today you need a machine gun to stop Messi.

Hristo Stoichkov

#8. Put in the superlatives yourselves, I'm running out. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy.

Hristo Stoichkov

#9. Some write that I'm a genius, others say that I'm disrespectful towards their country ... If you remember in 1993 I squatted to tie my shoe during the French national anthem.

Hristo Stoichkov

#10. If you understand football you make substitutions during the game, if you don't you make comments after it.

Hristo Stoichkov

#11. How should they know? I can't reveal
to a single friend what my soul conceals,
whom I'm in love with or what I believe -
my dreams, my thoughts - or why I grieve.

Hristo Botev

#12. I owe a lot to this club and the supporters who were always there for me. They supported me even when I was suspended.
(on his former club CSKA Sofia)

Hristo Stoichkov

#13. Life... a labyrinth... an agony... an ecstasy
- Labyrinths

Hristo Krstevski

#14. I feel like the blues is actually some kind of documentary of the past and the present - and something to give people inspiration for the future.

Willie Dixon

#15. Lubo Penev is a fighter, he never gives up and remains cool during tough moments. I remember when he was sick with cancer, but fought and returned to football. Most people would have given up and prayed to God for mercy.
(on former teammate Luboslav Penev)

Hristo Stoichkov

#16. Soccer is simple ... you just need to have the right mentality, fighting in every game, in every practice and for every ball.

Hristo Stoichkov

#17. The Justice Department needs to investigate how Goldman Sachs was able to steer things in such a manner through their former employees in the Bush administration, so that in the end Goldman's competitors have disappeared and Goldman is left standing.

Michael Moore