“I wanted to be a soccer player, and I became the best of the best, the...” — Eduardo Galeano Quote

“I wanted to be a soccer player, and I became the best of the best, the number one, better than Maradona, better than Pele, and even better than Messi - but only at night, nighttime, during my dreams. When I wake up, I realized that I have wooden legs and that I'm doomed to be a writer.”

“Disasters are called natural, as if nature were the executioner and not the victim.”

“The manager believes soccer is a science and the field a laboratory, but the genius of Einstein and the subtlety of Freud is not enough for the owners and the fans. They want a miracle worker like Our Lady of Lourdes, with the stamina of Gandhi.”

“I'm a person who thinks realistically but has dreams and fantasies as well.”

“In the big picture, few of our careers live up to the dreams we nursed when we were young. In fact, one underside of success is that it's nearly always penultimate, and so every accomplishment merely raises the bar.”

“The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.”