Martin Svoboda

“A friend is part of your family.”

“Most important is be a good man.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“I am what I am. A fighter.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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