Martin Svoboda

“To make a decision you need to be in a perfect environment: you have to be motivated and surrounded by the right people.”

“From success, you learn absolutely nothing. From failure and setbacks conclusions can be drawn. That goes for your private life as well as your career.”

“I said then and later that I had conquered my fear quickly and cleanly. That was a lie. But it would have been foolish to play into the hands of my rivals by confirming my weakness. At Monza, I was rigid with fear.”

“The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.”

“If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.”

“Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.”

“The message of the Kaizen strategy is that not a day should go by without some kind of improvement being made somewhere in the company.”

“Either you run the day, or the day runs you.”

“He who builds children palaces tears down prison walls.”

“Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.”

“If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry.”

“Failure is far more common than success; poverty is more prevalent than wealth; and disappointment is more normal than arrival.”

“I am constantly being asked about individuals. The only way to win is as a team. Football is not about one or two or three star players.”

“Sport is something that is very inspirational for young people.”

“A penalty is a cowardly way to score.”

“Everybody knows my life. I won a lot of tournaments and scored more than 1,000 goals, won three World Cups but I could not play in Olympic Games.”

“When you play against dirty players or very tough players, it’s easy to escape because you know what they’re going to do. But when the player is tough but intelligent, it’s much more difficult.”

“The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.”

“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”