Martin Svoboda

“A friend is part of your family.”

Pelé (1940–2022) Brazilian association football player

“Most important is be a good man.”

Pelé (1940–2022) Brazilian association football player

“When you control the ball you control the score.”

Pelé (1940–2022) Brazilian association football player

“If I pass away one day, I am happy because I tried to do my best. My sport allowed me to do so much because it’s the biggest sport in the world.”

Pelé (1940–2022) Brazilian association football player

“Everything on earth is a game. A passing thing. We all end up dead. We all end up the same, don’t we?”

Pelé (1940–2022) Brazilian association football player

“To be a striker you need to be in good shape.”

Pelé (1940–2022) Brazilian association football player

“Pele doesn’t die. Pele will never die. Pele is going to go on for ever.”

Pelé (1940–2022) Brazilian association football player

“Edson is the person that supports Pele. Edson is the base. Pele just comes and adds the face.”

Pelé (1940–2022) Brazilian association football player

“We're headed toward a two-tiered society -- a society that's destroying opportunities for the disadvantaged and creating welfare for the rich.”

Charles G. Koch (1935) American businessman

“It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.”

David Koch

“The way I look at it is, cancer research is absolutely nonpartisan. Cancer is very democratic in the sense that it attacks people regardless of their race, their gender, their national background, or their political persuasions.”

David Koch

“When our bodies are violated by this horrible disease of cancer, we’re in total shock because it’s so unexpected.”

David Koch

“You know, once you’ve stood up to cancer, everything else feels like a pretty easy fight.”

David Koch

“I am what I am. A fighter.”

Gordon Ramsay (1966) British chef, writer and TV presenter

“The secret is to make sure the business is running to perfection, with or without me.”

Gordon Ramsay (1966) British chef, writer and TV presenter

“I’m not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.”

Gordon Ramsay (1966) British chef, writer and TV presenter

“I train my chefs with a blindfold. I’ll get my sous chef and myself to cook a dish. The young chef would have to sit down and eat it with a blindfold. If they can’t identify the flavor, they shouldn’t be cooking the dish.”

Gordon Ramsay (1966) British chef, writer and TV presenter

“Being assertive and somewhat really firm has to be backed up with being fair.”

Gordon Ramsay (1966) British chef, writer and TV presenter

“Best to start at the bottom & gradually climb up. It’s much more fun, too.”

Gordon Ramsay (1966) British chef, writer and TV presenter