Love needs two things: it has to be rooted in freedom and it has to know the art of trust.
We probably got on better with the likes of Holland, Belgium, Norway and Sweden, some of whom are not even European.
Nothing is given to you. You've got to work for it.
Soccer is a man's game, not an outing for mamby-pambies.
It was a game we should have won. We lost it because we thought we were going to win it. But then again, I thought that there was no way we were going to get a result there.
I'm always suspicious of games where you're the only ones that play it.
If in winning we only draw we would be fine.
No one in my family had ever attended school [. . . ] On the first day of school my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education. That day, Miss Mdingane told me that my new name was Nelson. Why this particular name I have no idea.
Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.
I do write songs about love but I don't really know love that well.
True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had haunted my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Of all the sense of hearing acute.