"I said, ‘No, you have to play striker.’ Baggio went to another club. That year Baggio scored 25 [actually 22] goals – for Bologna! I lost 25 goals! Big mistake."

"Roberto Baggio was the best Italian fantasista; he was better than Meazza and Boniperti, and he was amongst the greatest of all time, right behind Maradona, Pelé, and maybe Cruyff. Without the injury problems and the difficulties with his knees, he would have been the very best player in history."

"Baggio on the bench? It's something that I will never understand in my lifetime."

"Roberto Baggio was the best player I ever played against; he made football look very easy."

"One games stands out in particular, one against Ancona which we won 5–1. Baggio scored four goals in the first 20 minutes and killed the game off. I don't think I've seen a better performance from any player in any game I've ever played in. For half an hour, he was on fire. As footballers go, he's a genius."

"There's not a team in the world that wouldn't like to have him in their line-up."

"He has the kind of skill people dream about."

"Baggio is the greatest little player I've ever seen."

"He looks like a wet rabbit."

"Roby is a great nine and a half."

"I had the good fortune to have seen [Giuseppe] Meazza, and I thought of him when I saw Baggio play. Baggio has fantasy."

"Baggio. Oh yes, oh yes…oh yes! What a goal by Baggio! That's the goal they’ve all been waiting for!"

"More productive than Maradona; he [Baggio] is without doubt the best number 10 in the league.""

"The angels sing in his legs."

"I have lost three World Cups, all on penalties. [...] If you'll allow me this, it really gets on my nerves."

"Penalties are only missed by those who have the courage to take them. (Italian: I rigori li sbaglia solo chi ha il coraggio di tirarli.)"

"I knew what I had to do and my concentration was perfect. But I was so tired that I tried to hit the ball too hard."

"When a monk complained about the world's evil, the Buddha stretched his hand toward the Earth: "on this Earth I attained Liberation.""

"Above all else, Franck was a bridge builder whose marvelous combination of art and spirituality points to a new way of being in the twenty-first century. He calls it transreligious: "outside the categories of both 'interfaith' and 'ecumenical' . . . even less a syncretistic scrambling together of symbols, concepts, and rituals of the various religious traditions." He clearly had great respect for each tradition and found in his art and writing ways to convey "the inner experience in which these traditions converge.""

"Life ends with the previous thought It is resurrected with the subsequent One"

"the distance between this pigeon's brain and mine is minute compared to that between mine and Bodhi's Wisdom Compassion"

"They do not see what they look at, hence they know not what they do."

"The cross of the Cruxifixion — without the cross of the Resurrection is the symbol of a mutilated Christianity."

""Nothing burns in hell but ego" says Tauler. Does anything live but Buddha Nature, Christ Spirit?"

"Even if there had never been a Buddha nor a Christ CHRIST NATURE IS! BUDDHA NATURE IS!"

"Innumerable Buddhas Enlightened… innumerable Christs crucified… always the same Christ, the same Buddha!"

"the grasses whisper "This is my Body""

"I and the Father are not-two!"

"When the Christ says I: it is the I of all the Masters: the Way, the Truth, the Life"

"In the beginngless beginning there was the Meaning"

"If you still have to talk about Ultimate Reality See how it manifests itself nakedly in Every thing!"

"People walking? Karma walking … Buddha nature walking..!"

"It is not that things are delusory but their separateness in the fabric of the Whole that is illusory…"

"The religions are delusional constructs formed around an infallible core."

"Do you believe in God?" "Which one?"

"Is there anything more miraculous than the wonders of nature?" the monk asked. The Master answered: "Yes! Your awareness, your understanding of the wonders of nature."

"The sinner's ego is crude that of the saint refined, distilled. Careful! It may be more poisonous!"

"a single leaf falling autumn is everywhere…"

"Illusion is the mantle of the Real"

"Do you believe in God? I, I believe in nothing but God!"

"The Void is a living void … pulsating in endless rhythms of creation and destruction. The great Void does not exist as Void, it embraces all Being/non-Being"

""What are you?" — I am no What!I am only I … In relation to you!"

"The clearsighted eye turns the light back to see its own Original Nature…"

"The Tao cannot be divided, it cannot be shared"

"… each dot: the center of a circle without circumference …"

"all at once I saw that the sun was round! Since then I have been the happiest man on Earth!"

"How old are you? As old as the Buddha. And how old is the Buddha? As old as I am"

"I am neither I nor Other, both I and other…"