Quotes About Andrea Pirlo

#1. I'd say Carrick has the qualities of a Scholes, Andrea Pirlo and Sergio Busquets.

Gary Neville

#2. I lifted my eyes to the heavens and asked for help because if God exists, there's no way he's French.

Andrea Pirlo

#3. I don't give a toss about pressure. I spent afternoon sleeping and playing Playstation. Then I went out and won the World Cup.

Andrea Pirlo

#4. I could hardly sleep and even when I did drop off, I awoke to a grim thought: I'm disgusting. I can't play any more. I went to bed with Dudek and all his Liverpool team-mates.

Andrea Pirlo

#5. If a forward makes a mistake, he can try again. If he scores, he's in with a shout of the Ballon d'Or. But when it's a defender who slips up, it's a far more delicate situation. In percentage terms, the people who play at the back make fewer mistakes than those further forward.

Andrea Pirlo

#6. Becoming a footballer is only the first half of the silent prayer a kid offers up to the sky or confides to his teacher in a primary school essay. The second part is the name of the team he wants to play for.

Andrea Pirlo

#7. I can visualize the time when almost every family will have a small plane in their back yard.

Henry Ford

#8. It's not good enough to imitate the models proposed for us that are answers to circumstances other than our own. It isn't even enough to discover who we are. We have to invent ourselves.

Rosario Castellanos

#9. It took me 20 years to buy an electric typewriter, because I was afraid it would be too sensitive. I like to bang the keys. I'm doing action stories, so that's the way I like to do it.

Elmore Leonard

#10. When you develop your psychic vision after some meditation, you will be able to see the subtle physical of others, or perhaps yourself. At first you will see it as an aura; eventually you can see the whole subtle physical.

Frederick Lenz

#11. After the wheel, the best invention is the PlayStation.

Andrea Pirlo

#12. The only great English midfielder in my career was Paul Scholes. He had elegance in him. Others were pretenders.

Andrea Pirlo

#13. I don't feel pressure ... I don't give a toss about it. I spent the afternoon of Sunday, 9 July, 2006 in Berlin sleeping and playing the PlayStation. In the evening, I went out and won the World Cup.

Andrea Pirlo

#14. I'll never fully shake that sense of absolute impotence when destiny is at work. The feeling will cling to my feet forever, trying to pull me down. Even now if I mess up a pass, that malign force could be to blame. For that reason, I steer well clear of the DVD from the Liverpool game.

Andrea Pirlo

#15. British teams bring me good luck.

Andrea Pirlo

#16. All I'm after is a few square metres to be myself. A space where I can continue to profess my creed: take the ball, give it to a team-mate, team-mate scores. It's called an assist and it's my way of spreading happiness.

Andrea Pirlo

#17. Study the best and highest things that are; but of yourself humble thoughts retain.

Joe Davis

#18. Moths flitted in the porch light, pinging against the bulb, helplessly drawn to something they could never have.

Jamie Ford

#19. Evolution has encountered no intellectual trouble; no new arguments have been offered. Creationism is a home-grown phenomenon of American sociocultural history-a splinter movement ... who believe that every word in the Bible must be literally true, whatever such a claim might mean.

Stephen Jay Gould

#20. It's an enemy that I can't allow to wound me a second time. It's already done enough damage: most of it hidden far from the surface.

Andrea Pirlo

#21. I think if I produced a show I would not want to be part of that production. That's not ... I'm not ... I mean, I couldn't even sell Boy Scout chocolate bars when I was a kid!

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

#22. There are always lessons to be found in the darkest moments. It's a moral obligation to dig deep and find that little glimmer of hope or pearl of wisdom.

Andrea Pirlo

#23. In this life, you're either a man or an actor, there's nothing in between.

Andrea Pirlo

#24. Queen Elizabeth, who said, Not now, I'm on the throne. Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

#25. I've always stayed on the periphery of things. When I used to go to the punk clubs and things like that, I was never up front. I always wanted to be in the back, or on the side, because I wanted to get the whole view, rather than be staring up at someone's nostrils.

James Wolcott