Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.

The universe is an intelligence test.

My profession is I'm a dissident philosopher.

As an athlete, you have to become quite selfish with your time and your body and your training.

If you look at football over the last 50 years there has been a gradual decrease in goals, you don't see too many 10-nils these days, but two, three or four goals per game is a good spectacle.

Of course we all dream about doing big, playing for big clubs, but I wanted to play football because of the love for the game.

Occasionally, Americans in large numbers are moved by a vanquished athlete's grief. Larry Bird with a towel over his head in 1979 comes immediately to mind. But more often, sports fans do the opposite - they delight in the desolation of a defeated archrival.