117 Quotes by Sepp Blatter

We, or I, cannot monitor everyone all of the time. If people want to do wrong, they will also try to hide it.

FIFA’s goal of making the world a better place through football cannot be achieved through our efforts alone – equally important is the power which every fan of the beautiful game has at their disposal.

Football is hope. To be a better human being but also hope one day, one day, to leave your country to be somewhere, let’s say admired, as a football star.

All religions, they play football – even nowadays all girls and women have the right to play football in cultures like the Arabic countries in the Muslim they play football.

As long as you’ve got serious investors who wish to put money into football, I applaud. It proves that football is attractive. What upsets me, what I find scandalous, is when clubs accept fools.

I do not feel that I have a mandate from the entire world of football – the fans, the players, the clubs, the people who live, breathe and love football.

There is a movement in club football, which I don’t necessarily consider a prime example of solidarity, because it leads us to conclude the rich are getting richer and they are using everything in the market to create an exodus from Africa.

I can understand that people are not happy, but they should not use football to make their demands heard.

It’s up to the national associations and their leagues to limit the entry of foreign players.