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Real Madrid is a legendary team that stands above all others and is the target of all players. -- Franz Beckenbauer
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The two designs are completely different. The first is totally futuristic, the second is more classical. You can of course get very excited about doing something completely out of the ordinary, just like the Olympic stadium in its time. But each to his or her own taste. -- Franz Beckenbauer
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The Olympic stadium may have been built only in the early 1970s but it was clear for a long time it had no future. For many reasons it is not good enough for modern football and today's fans. -- Franz Beckenbauer
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If a Middle Eastern sheikh comes to buy Bayern Munich, he could buy 49 per cent. Fifty-one per cent must stay in Germany with the club. That law came about because of the developments of international football. -- Franz Beckenbauer
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I kept my speeches short as captain. I focused on the key points of the opposition of the day. As coach, I was never afraid to give long speeches to the players throughout our preparations. It was important they had all the information possible. -- Franz Beckenbauer
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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
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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
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The strong one doesn't win, the one that wins is strong. -- Franz Beckenbauer
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We are the last remaining country to allow ourselves two breaks in the season. You just have to look at England, Italy and Spain, they play right through the season. We on the other hand take six weeks off in the winter until the end of January, and that is a luxury. -- Franz Beckenbauer
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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
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Since Sven Goran Eriksson took over, England have been fantastic. -- Franz Beckenbauer
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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
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At any rate, I can only see such a success having positive effects for everyone, particularly as our anticipation of the World cup would only increase further. -- Franz Beckenbauer
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Back then, a half-a-century ago, the situation was totally different. Economically, we were practically on our knees, and politically, we were still excluded from the community of nations. Today, in this respect, we have a totally different and much more stable basis. -- Franz Beckenbauer
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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
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You know the Dutch, they're always a bit funny ... some of them. -- Franz Beckenbauer
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Germany needs to have a handicap, like in golf. They ought to start each match with two goals in advance to their opposition. -- Franz Beckenbauer
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Possession means nothing when the opponent takes its chances -- Franz Beckenbauer
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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
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Sometimes, in the dressing room, I think I am in Hollywood, -- Franz Beckenbauer
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Penalty shooting is always an uncertain affair because there is a lot of luck involved. -- Franz Beckenbauer
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It is not the strong one that wins, the one that wins is strong. -- Franz Beckenbauer
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Certainly it is a different world for players nowadays. But it depends on the individual. -- Franz Beckenbauer
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What FC Bayern has become is thanks to Gerd Mueller. -- Franz Beckenbauer
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German football is like English football. The Germans and the English do not play like a Brazilian side. They have to improve, bring up their young players, who have character. -- Franz Beckenbauer
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At least six Bayern players, who have won almost everything, are in the national squad. -- Franz Beckenbauer
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In the World Cup, much depends for every team on how it develops during the tournament. There are always rising tensions. They come from within, and they come from the media. -- Franz Beckenbauer
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Rugby is a different game. There is an interruption every two minutes also in American football. Our soccer is a moving game: play, play, play, move, move - you don't interrupt. -- Franz Beckenbauer
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It's quite possible that Beckham suffers from a mental block at big tournaments -- Franz Beckenbauer
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We should not fool ourselves. We are not one of the world's top teams any more. -- Franz Beckenbauer
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We should not compare humans to God, but Messi is a godly player. -- Franz Beckenbauer
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At the World Cup and even now at the Confederations Cup, our security provisions will ensure the greatest level of protection possible for all those participating - both inside and outside the stadiums. -- Franz Beckenbauer
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There's only one possibility: win, draw or loose. -- Franz Beckenbauer
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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