Franz Beckenbauer Quotes

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

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Strong, Winning

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• Football is one of the world's best means of communication. It is impartial, apolitical and universal. Football unites people around the world every day. Young or old, players or fans, rich or poor, the game makes everyone equal, stirs the imagination, makes people happy and makes them sad

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Football, Communication, Mean

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

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Winning, Germany, Possibility

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• Possession means nothing when the opponent takes its chances

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Mean, Opponents, Chance

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

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Sports, Team, Individual

  "Schu voted Germany's star of the century". www.abc.net.au. November 20, 2004.

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

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Godly, Player, Messi

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• Since Sven Goran Eriksson took over, England have been fantastic.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  England, Fantastic, Has Beens

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• The trouble for today's footballers is they have too many distractions. We used to get our old players coming to watch training with football magazines in their hands. Now, more often than not, they are checking the share prices.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Football, Player, Hands

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• No one wanted to fall back behind so both teams wated for a mistake from the other.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Mistake, Team, Fall

  Source: www.bayernnews.org

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

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Luck, Shooting, Affair

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

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Thinking, Hollywood, Rooms

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• 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.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Clever, Player, Feet

  "Messi Leaves La Liga Greats Trailing". uk.reuters.com. November 23, 2014.

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• What FC Bayern has become is thanks to Gerd Mueller.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Germany, Thanks

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• He has been named as the heir apparent of the great Argentine hero, Diego Maradona, by journalists, players, and Maradona himself, alike. I'd personally put him in a drawer of my bedside table.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Hero, Player, Tables

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• You have to sometimes shoot from the second row, that's all football. So you have to be a bit more flexible.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Football, Sometimes, Flexible

  Source: www.bayernnews.org

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

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Real, Team, Player

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• For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Inspirational, Basketball, Years

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• The Netherlands have great strikers... but they are only playing one. They are depriving themselves of their best qualities and shooting themselves in the foot.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Feet, Quality, Netherlands

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• 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?

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Team, Important, Use

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• George Best was one of the most talented players of all time and probably the best footballer who never made it to a major world final.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Player, Finals, World

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• It would make me a lot happier if I could meet up again next year with as many friends as possible from all over the world who I've met during my career. That's where the great opportunity lies, for me personally, in our role as World Cup host.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Lying, Opportunity, Years

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• If someone has the chance to be top scorer and you want to encourage him, then you give him the chance to be top scorer but it never happened. That's why I believe something is going on there.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Believe, Giving, Want

  Source: www.bayernnews.org

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

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Block, Suffering, Quitting

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• The World Cup tournament overall and, naturally, the new stadiums at its heart, are the ideal platform to portray Germany as a positive and exceptional location, and above all of course, as a highly capable economic location.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Heart, Germany, World

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• He shouldn't have resigned over that game. It was not a bad performance; in fact it was quite a good one for England. I would not have resigned under those circumstances.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Soccer, Football, Games

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