Franz Beckenbauer Quotes

Rugby is a different game. There is an interruption every two minutes also in American football. Our soccer is a moving game: play, play, play, move, move - you don't interrupt.

What FC Bayern has become is thanks to Gerd Mueller.

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

It's quite possible that Beckham suffers from a mental block at big tournaments

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.

Messi is a genius. He has everything. When I watch him, I see a player who is very, very, skilful, very clever and his left foot is like Diego Maradona's.

The most important thing however is the money. What use would it be to us, to have a a mighty stadium but a useless team, because we couldn't afford anything better?

Penalty shooting is always an uncertain affair because there is a lot of luck involved.

Germany needs to have a handicap, like in golf. They ought to start each match with two goals in advance to their opposition.

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.

I kept my speeches short as captain. I focused on the key points of the opposition of the day. As coach, I was never afraid to give long speeches to the players throughout our preparations. It was important they had all the information possible.

The Olympic stadium may have been built only in the early 1970s but it was clear for a long time it had no future. For many reasons it is not good enough for modern football and today's fans.

We should not compare humans to God, but Messi is a godly player.

German football is like English football. The Germans and the English do not play like a Brazilian side. They have to improve, bring up their young players, who have character.

As someone who played a team sport, I feel a bit uncomfortable being ranked as an individual so high

The two designs are completely different. The first is totally futuristic, the second is more classical. You can of course get very excited about doing something completely out of the ordinary, just like the Olympic stadium in its time. But each to his or her own taste.

At least six Bayern players, who have won almost everything, are in the national squad.

You know the Dutch, they're always a bit funny ... some of them.

Sometimes, in the dressing room, I think I am in Hollywood,

Real Madrid is a legendary team that stands above all others and is the target of all players.

There's only one possibility: win, draw or loose.

It is not the strong one that wins, the one that wins is strong.