Martin Svoboda

“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.”

“It's easy to find people to do things. What's harder is to find people to tell you what should be done.”

“We are seeing a globalization of indifference. There is a culture of conflict, which makes us think only of ourselves. Makes us live in soap bubbles which, however lovely, are also insubstantial. We've become used to the suffering of others. It doesn't affect me. No one in our world feels responsible. Who is responsible for the blood of our…”

“Truth may be vital, but without love, it is unbearable. Caritas in veritate.”

“Confession cleans the sinner's soul, it doesn't help the victim. Our whole church is in need of forgiveness. Where is our humility? Sin is a wound, not a stain. It needs to be treated, healed. Forgiveness is not enough.”

“We have spent these last years disciplining anyone who disagrees with our line on divorce, on birth control, on being gay. While our planet was being destroyed, while inequality grew like a cancer. We worried whether it was alright to speak the Mass in Latin, whether girls should be allowed to be altar servers. We built walls around us, and all…”

“It's not easy to entrust oneself to God's mercy. I know He has a very special capacity for forgetting our mistakes. God forgets, but I don't.”

“When no one is to blame, everyone is to blame.”

“When love is not madness it is not love.”