I don’t want to be remembered just as a footballer, but as a person who inspired others.

I think we have gone through a period when too many children and people have been given to understand 'I have a problem, it is the Government's job to cope with it!' or 'I have a problem, I will go and get a grant to cope with it!' 'I am homeless, the Government must house me!' and so they are casting their problems on society and who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first.

The deeper you go into mathematics, the more you realize how much remains unknown.

时间并非直线前行，而是自我折叠。

过去不是一条线，而是一片风景。

每位科学家都有责任考虑他们工作的更广泛影响。

释义：运气不好的时候，即使是黄金也会失去光泽；运气好的时候，连普通的铁也会发光。

我不追随潮流。我创造自己的世界。