George Weah Quotes

• I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

  George Weah

  Peace, Eye, Names

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• Education is a continual process, it's like a bicycle... If you don't pedal you don't go forward.

  George Weah

  Process, Pedals, Bicycle

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• They say I do not have the qualifications to be president, that I do not have education. Well, I would never divide the Liberian people.

  George Weah

  Education, People, President

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• Once you take care of people, people respect you.

  George Weah

  People, Care, Take Care

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• My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

  George Weah

  Government, Law, Boots

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• I know I have a successful career, a successful life. If I sit and say, 'Look, I have a comfortable life,' and I... just think about myself, I don't think that would be fair. That would be very selfish. Because everything I do in my life is to benefit my people.

  George Weah

  Selfish, Successful, Thinking

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• I will do nothing for 89 minutes, but score in the 90th.

  George Weah

  Minutes, Score

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• My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.

  George Weah

  Fighting, Noble, Causes

  "Weah supporters' riots raise fears for Liberian stability" by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2005.

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• Football has been good to me. Everyone has their destiny but you have to make use of the opportunities. I have spent 15 years at the top of my game. It makes me happy. I love the game. I love scoring goals. But I have always taken it seriously. It is not what the game gives you, it is what you give it.

  George Weah

  Football, Taken, Destiny

  "In the court of King George". Interview with Jason Burke, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2010.

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• My father died when I was young and I was raised by my grandmother, Emma Klonjlaleh Brown. We could afford to eat chicken just once a year, on Christmas.

  George Weah

  Christmas, Father, Grandmother

  "Africa's World Cup can make education a reality for all" by George Weah, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2010.

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• I have proven to the world that I am articulate, I am very intelligent, I'm well exposed.

  George Weah

  Intelligent, World, Wells

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• The United Nations should come in and take over Liberia, not temporarily, but for life. To make Liberians believe in democracy, to make us believe in human rights, they need to go in and just seize control of the country. That is the only way Liberia will ever become the kind of country it was supposed to be.

  George Weah

  Country, Believe, Rights

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• It can't be Sunday every day. There are also Mondays and Tuesdays.

  George Weah

  Soccer, Monday, Sunday

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• When I was growing up in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, I sold doughnuts, popcorn and Kool Aid every day after school so that my family had some money and I could pay my school fees. It was a tough life.

  George Weah

  Growing Up, School, Popcorn

  "Africa's World Cup can make education a reality for all" by George Weah, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2010.

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• I ask Liberians to pray so that God will bring peace and stability, and bring about unification to ourselves.

  George Weah

  Praying, Unification, Stability

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• I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country.

  George Weah

  Country, Peace, People

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• In America there is a public library in every community. How many public libraries are there in Africa? Every day there are new books coming out and new ideas being discussed. But these new books and ideas don't reach Africa and we are being left behind.

  George Weah

  Book, America, Ideas

  "Africa's World Cup can make education a reality for all" by George Weah, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2010.

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• Around 80% of Liberians are unemployed and only half of all children go to primary school. Just one in 20 go on to secondary school. Young children are on the streets instead of in the classrooms. We are not giving them the opportunity to learn and they will struggle to get jobs when they grow up.

  George Weah

  Jobs, Children, Growing Up

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• If I say I am not a politician, it is because I did not go to school to do political science. But at the end of the day, I think we are all born politicians. It's practical. All you gotta do is practice.

  George Weah

  School, Thinking, Practice

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• I am always successful in my work.

  George Weah

  Successful

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• I believe education should be a right for every child, but tragically in many parts of world it is a privilege for certain children whose parents have money. There are 72 million children in the world who don't go to school and many of them are in Africa.

  George Weah

  Children, Believe, School

  "Africa's World Cup can make education a reality for all" by George Weah, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2010.

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• I am the elected president of Liberia, not Ellen Sirleaf. They stole my victory, and I am here to say loud and clear that I am the winner of the elections.

  George Weah

  Victory, President, Election

  "Inside Africa", www.cnn.com. December 17, 2005.

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• The whole thing about elections in Liberia - it's not about the way you take care of people, it's not about the heart, it's about education, according to the perception of some people.

  George Weah

  Heart, People, Perception

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