Quotes About Pirlo

#1. I think about the great players with whom I have shared a pitch: Eric Cantona, Zinedine Zidane, Pirlo, Xavi, Cristiano Ronaldo - and the greatest of them all is Messi.

Paul Scholes

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

Gary Neville

#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. The word griot ... is the word for what I do and the role that the filmmaker has in society ... the griot is a messenger of one's time, a visionary and the creator of the future.

Djibril Diop Mambety

#8. [Grief is for the strong, who use it as fuel for burning.]

Lauren Groff

#9. The best years of our lives are not behind us. They're part of us and they are set for repetition as we grow up and move to New York and away from New York and wish we did or didn't live in New York.

Marina Keegan

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

Andrea Pirlo

#11. An umeboshi plum is a little Japensese salt plum. The best thing for motion sickness is to take one of these plums ... and tape it to your belly button. I'm not kidding you. This really, really works.

Marilu Henner

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

Andrea Pirlo

#13. In another sense he is "being itself," in that he is the inexhaustible source of all reality, the absolute upon which the contingent is always utterly dependent, the unity and simplicity that underlies and sustains the diversity of finite and composite things.

David Bentley Hart

#14. 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

#15. 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

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

Andrea Pirlo

#17. British teams bring me good luck.

Andrea Pirlo

#18. 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

#19. Almighty God freely bestows the good things in this world in proportion to a person's mental readiness to receive.

Norman Vincent Peale

#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. Each memory was now the shadow of a shadow of a shadow. The only thing that remained tangible to him was the sense of absence.

Haruki Murakami

#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. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made -Psalm 139:14

David

#25. Pride that you express to others is ego. Pride that you express silently to yourself is real pride.

Stuart Wilde

#26. In the end, every man's life is but a tale told to him that's lived it, and to him alone.

Tim Willocks