So much for progress. How quickly civilization could dissolve into its more ugly elements.

Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.

If the French were German in their essence, then how the Germans would admire them!

She is a stranger to most Germans. Many East Germans think of her as a West German, while West Germans think she is an East German.

Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.

The greatest lesson [the Germans] learned over here was our mentality, and they took that back to the German team. I don't think that's a negative. I think that's a positive. I think the game grows because of it.